On 13:51 Mon 10 Sep , Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:53:39AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD > wrote: > > On 19:29 Sun 09 Sep , Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > > > > On 17:26 Fri 07 Sep , Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > > > +The image must be placed at the specified offset (currently 0x80000) > > > > > +from the start of the system RAM and called there. The start of the > > > > > +system RAM must be aligned to 2MB. > > > > can we drop this > > > > > > Drop what? > > > And why? > > This contrain the must be loadable at any address > > You can't easily load the kernel image at any address, unless it can > relocate itself and you have a way to specify PHYS_OFFSET. We don't want > a compile-time PHYS_OFFSET, the kernel detects it at boot time based on > the load address. so NACK kexec and other boot loaders require it
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