From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Nqvqu-0000RH-G7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:00:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53888 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nqvqu-0000Qv-3s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:00:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nqvqt-0005cd-G3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:00:03 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:23940) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nqvqt-0005cS-9o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:00:03 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([38.113.113.100]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nqvqr-00016L-OM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:00:02 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] load_elf: replace the address addend by a translation function Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:59:44 +0000 References: <1268600220-29293-1-git-send-email-aurelien@aurel32.net> In-Reply-To: <1268600220-29293-1-git-send-email-aurelien@aurel32.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003142159.45411.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Aurelien Jarno > The patch also convert all machines that have an addend, simplify the > PowerPC kernel loading The new PPC code looks like it may break images > 16M in size. > and fix the MIPS kernel loading using this new > feature. I'm fairly sure the MIPS routines are not board specific, so it'd be nice if we could avoid the duplication. This would also reduce pain if we implement loading to other segments (in particular kseg1 and xkphys). Paul