linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 02/31] arm64: Kernel booting and initialisation

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Message-ID: <20120910125137.GC27042@arm.com>
Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:51:37 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
Cc:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>,
	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/31] arm64: Kernel booting and initialisation

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:53:39AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 19:29 Sun 09 Sep     , Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > On 17:26 Fri 07 Sep     , Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > +The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000)
> > > > +from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the
> > > > +system RAM must be aligned to 2MB.
> > > can we drop this
> > 
> > Drop what?
> > And why?
> This contrain the must be loadable at any address

You can't easily load the kernel image at any address, unless it can
relocate itself and you have a way to specify PHYS_OFFSET. We don't want
a compile-time PHYS_OFFSET, the kernel detects it at boot time based on
the load address.

-- 
Catalin
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