linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] MIPS: Allow platforms to specify the decompressor load address

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Message-ID: <7814815.Q6KYv1fjo1@wuerfel>
Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:15:12 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>
Cc:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...tec.com>,
	James Hartley <james.hartley@...tec.com>,
	James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] MIPS: Allow platforms to specify the decompressor load address

On Monday 23 February 2015 17:31:44 Andrew Bresticker wrote:
> Platforms which use raw zboot images may need to link the image at
> a fixed address if there is no other way to communicate the load
> address to the bootloader.  Allow the per-platform Kbuild files
> to specify an optional zboot image load address (zload-y) and fall
> back to calc_vmlinuz_load_addr if unset.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>
> Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>

No objections to the patch, but have you considered doing the
same thing as ARM's AUTO_ZRELADDR, where we calculate the
address at runtime from the entry point?

I assume this is the same kind of address you are talking
about here; if not, nevermind.

	Arnd
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