From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
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: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:34:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45CCCCAD.2040507@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070209185528.GB28127@mag.az.mvista.com>
Mark A. Greer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:51:07PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 09, Mark A. Greer wrote:
>>
>> > Does anyone know of a problem downloading to 8MB instead of 4MB in
>> > arch/powerpc? If not, would you object if it changed to 8MB?
>>
>> IBM chrp 32 and 64bit has a free and usable memory range from 64k to
>> 12M.
>> Changing the link address from 4 to 8 MB will reduce the max zImage size
>> to 3MB on these systems.
>
> Hmm, not good.
>
> Paul, may we may this configurable (i.e., a CONFIG option)?
To have zImage.lds.S use a config option you'll need to run it through
the preprocessor, which in general seems like a good thing. Now we just
have this:
$(obj)/zImage.lds $(obj)/zImage.coff.lds: $(obj)/%: $(srctree)/$(src)/%.S
@cp $< $@
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-09 19:34 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 [this message]
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
2007-02-12 19:18 ` Mark A. Greer
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