linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] RISC-V: Allow booting kernel from any 4KB aligned address

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Date:   Mon, 25 Mar 2019 04:39:35 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Anup Patel <Anup.Patel@....com>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@....com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        "linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] RISC-V: Allow booting kernel from any 4KB aligned
 address

I'm still not sold on this at all.  It is a lot more code, a lot harder
to read code and all for a very narrow corner case that isn't even
going to be enabled in default configs.