Text address for 8xx

Text address for 8xx

[Mark Phillips]

Hi, all.

It seems that with newer kernels, the text address in arch/ppc/8xx/mbxboot/Makefile is too low for the 8xx processors.  I had a problem with linux-2.4.4-2001-07-23 (upgrading from the pre6-2001-04-24) in that the kernel is now larger than 0x180000 (I get greedy when I see all those options!)

Is there a good reason not to make this 400000 for all processors?

Sincerely,
Mark Phillips


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Re: Text address for 8xx

[Dan Malek]

Mark Phillips wrote:

> Is there a good reason not to make this 400000 for all processors?

Probably fewer than the reasons to keep it at the lower address.
I'll be changing this as part of some generic bootloader changes
over the next week or so.  The reason to use the lower address is
there are still some people that think they can make this run on
a 4MBtye memory.  Another reason is the way the "free" memory is
allocated for the unzip working buffers.  We can fix the latter :-).


	-- Dan

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