From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: "Mark A. Greer" <mgreer@mvista.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Okay to change default zImage link/load address?
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:53:31 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070210005330.GD8276@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070209232533.GE12035@mag.az.mvista.com>
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:25:33PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:21:00PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:40:10AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> >
> > > Note that the zImage is already build -fPIC and capable of relocating
> > > itself if loaded at an address other than 4MB...
> >
> > That doesn't address the issue.
> >
> > Many firmwares look at the address in the ELF header and that's where
> > they download it, period. Right now, that address is 4MB, period.
> > 4MB doesn't work on some platforms so I'm looking for an acceptable
> > alternative.
>
> David, if I sounded rude, I didn't mean to.
No no. I see your point.
Hrm... I've already been thinking that we'll need to make the crt0.S
replaceable by platform. The same is probably true for the linker
script.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-10 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-09 18:43 Okay to change default zImage link/load address? Mark A. Greer
2007-02-09 18:51 ` Olaf Hering
2007-02-09 18:55 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-02-09 19:14 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-09 22:35 ` David Gibson
2007-02-10 1:27 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-09 19:34 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-09 22:40 ` David Gibson
2007-02-09 23:05 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-09 23:21 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-02-09 23:25 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-02-10 0:53 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-02-12 19:18 ` Mark A. Greer
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