Re: sharp zaurus: prevent killing spitz-en

Russell King
2005-10-26T00:10:39Z

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:18:46AM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> Ben Dooks wrote:
> >It would be better for each machine to export an config option
> >from the Kconfig to specify if they have a maximum size.
>
> Isn't the maximum size a property of the bootloader/other firmware?
> i.e., something the kernel build system knows nothing about.

Yes. blob, for instance, aborts an xmodem download if it's too large.
The kernel has no knowledge of what blob classifies as "too large"
which may indeed be different from uboot, bootldr, redboot, or ...

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core