[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/3] image: Allow images to indicate they're loadable at any address

Wolfgang Denk
2011-11-08T00:29:56Z

Dear Stephen Warren,

In message <4EB87375.1040100@nvidia.com> you wrote:
>
> The only place that has full knowledge of the board's memory layout is
> the U-Boot environment for that board, and hence I assert that the
> U-Boot environment should define where to load the kernel (and initrd
> and FDT), and if U-Boot must copy them, where to copy them to. In
> particular, the creator of the uImage can't possibly pick these values
> and expect them to work everywhere.

But as you said yourself, the (raw) kernel is not relocatable. It
gets loaded and started at pre-defined (at image build time)
addresses. Only the kernel wrapper adds the complexity you are
complaining about. Drop it, then.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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