linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] MIPS: head.S: Always jump to kernel

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Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 13:41:06 +0200
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] MIPS: head.S: Always jump to kernel_entry at head
 of text

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 02:34:32PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> Buggy loaders like early version of PMON2000 sometimes ignore
> elf_entry and goto start of text directly.

so select BOOT_RAW on those broken platforms, no need for this change.

Thomas.

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