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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] load_elf: replace the address addend by a
	translation function
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:55:48 +0000
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Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

> Thanks for the review.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 09:59:44PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> The idea was to get rid of the most significant byte, as it changes
> depending on the kernel version, while we want the kernel to be loaded
> at a fixed address. Looks like I have to shift the mask by four bits.

I thought that problem was that some kernels are (incorrectly) linked with 
LMA==VMA, whereas they should have a base load address of zero.

Paul