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Message-ID: <mvm35a383rx.fsf@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:03:46 +0100
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@...nel.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
Atish Patra <atishp@...osinc.com>,
linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: head: use 0 as the default text_offset
On Nov 28 2022, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> Commit 0f327f2aaad6 ("RISC-V: Add an Image header that boot loader can
> parse.") adds an image header which "is based on ARM64 boot image
> header and provides an opportunity to combine both ARM64 & RISC-V
> image headers in future.". At that time, arm64's default text_offset
> is 0x80000, this is to give "512 KB of guaranteed BSS space to put
> the swapper page tables" as commit cfa7ede20f13 ("arm64: set TEXT_OFFSET
> to 0x0 in preparation for removing it entirely") pointed out, but
> riscv doesn't need the space, so use 0 as the default text_offset.
Doesn't that clash with the memory reserved for openSBI?
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