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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/20] bootwrapper: Add a zImage.bin.<platform> target.
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> This target produces a flat binary rather than an ELF file, and prints
> the start address for the user to jump to (since it is unfortunately not
> fixed).

For platforms whose firmware can't take an image format including an
entry point, we shouldn't make the user faff around with the non-fixed
entry point.  Instead we should modify the entry sequence for those
platforms so that the entry point *is* fixed.

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