On Wed, 27 Mar 2013, Graeme Russ wrote: > Hi Brendan, > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Brendan Conoboy <b...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 03/26/2013 05:04 PM, Graeme Russ wrote: > >> > >> Hi Brendan, > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Brendan Conoboy <b...@redhat.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 03/26/2013 04:49 PM, Graeme Russ wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> 4. Relocatable kernel (like x86) > >>> > >>> > >>> If I understand correctly it already is relocatable. This is simply the > >>> address that uboot is instructed to load the kernel into memory at. > >> > >> > >> So why worry? Just have the load address in the U-Boot environment. > > > > > > Because uboot's bootm does not handling the relocation? > > Ah, I think I get it now. The x86 relocatable kernel is truly > relocatable - the kernel itself figures out where is has been loaded > and performs some adjustments
The ARM kernel zImage does that too. It is the uImage wrapping that U-Boot used to impose on it that insists on absolute load addresses. At least with zImage and the bootz command, you can store the load address in the U-Boot environment where it belongs. Nicolas _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
