From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pythia.bakeyournoodle.com (pythia.bakeyournoodle.com [203.82.209.197]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 588BBDDEF9 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:16:46 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:16:44 +1000 From: Tony Breeds To: Paul Mackerras , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Change the default link address for pSeries zImage kernels. Message-ID: <20080623081643.GI20457@bakeyournoodle.com> References: <1a551391a3c4925271cc86cb2e957aaccb0b599c.1214208801.git.tony@bakeyournoodle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <1a551391a3c4925271cc86cb2e957aaccb0b599c.1214208801.git.tony@bakeyournoodle.com> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 06:13:23PM +1000, Tony Breeds wrote: > Currently we set the start of the .text section to be 4Mb for pSeries. > In situations where the zImage is > 8Mb we'll fail to boot (due to > overlapping with OF). Move .text in a zImage from 4MB to 64MB (well past OF). > > We still will not be able to load large zImage unless we also move OF, > to that end, add a note to the zImage ELF to move OF to 32Mb. If this > is the very first kernel booted then we'll need to moev OF manually by > setting real-base. > > Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds > --- Ooops should have said that this has been boot tested on power 3,4,5,5+,6 and JS20. POWER4 firmware seems to have aproblem manually reloacting realbase but asside from that it booted. Yours Tony linux.conf.au http://www.marchsouth.org/ Jan 19 - 24 2009 The Australian Linux Technical Conference!