From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] bootwrapper: Allow specifying of image physical offset
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:37:05 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080311003705.GH11559@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0803071055200.8522@blarg.am.freescale.net>
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:55:51AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Normally we assume kernel images will be loaded at offset 0. However
> there are situations, like when the kernel itself is running at a non-zero
> physical address, that we don't want to load it at 0.
>
> Allow the wrapper to take an offset. We use this when building u-boot images.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Hrm. It concerns me that with the patch as it stands,
CONFIG_MEMORY_START looks like a fairly universal option, but it will
only be respected on u-boot platforms (and only new u-boot, not cuboot
at that).
--
David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_
| _way_ _around_!
http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-11 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-07 16:55 [PATCH] [POWERPC] bootwrapper: Allow specifying of image physical offset Kumar Gala
2008-03-08 1:44 ` Geoff Levand
2008-03-08 15:13 ` Kumar Gala
2008-03-11 0:37 ` David Gibson [this message]
2008-03-11 4:19 ` Kumar Gala
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080311003705.GH11559@localhost.localdomain \
--to=david@gibson.dropbear.id.au \
--cc=galak@kernel.crashing.org \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org \
--cc=paulus@samba.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).