linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] ARM: Makefile: Generalize qcom platform text offset

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Date:   Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:31:16 +0000
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] ARM: Makefile: Generalize qcom platform text offset

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 03:27:23PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Some qcom platforms need a specific text offset because the first
> 2MB of memory is reserved for shared memory. Let's just always
> shift the text segment up by 2MB when ARCH_QCOM is selected so
> that we don't have to specify the specific platforms that exhibit
> this problem in Kconfig.

I was really hoping that this sillyness would stop, but I guess
expecting it to stop is asking too much...

Is there really no other option?

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