On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:12:50 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 15:39 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
> > Currently we set the start of the .text section to be 4Mb for pSeries.
> > In situations where the zImage is > 8Mb we'll fail to boot (due to
> > overlapping with OF).  Move .text in a pSeries zImage from 4MB to 64MB
> > (well past OF).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ---
> >  - Compile tested for *_defconfig with only pSeries chaning it's link
> >    address.
> >  - Boot tested on POWER6
> 
> Considering how bad OF can be on some machines, I'd like this to be
> boot-tested on a wider range of machines. Also, it might depend on the
> OF real-base setting as well...
> 
> At least, we should be able to test at ozlabs on cell blades, POWER4
> bare metal (ie "SMP mode"), POWER5 and POWER5+.

And given that all the embedded boards use zImage.lds.S, we should
probably test it there.  I'll try to test on 4xx for both treeImage and
U-Boot today.

josh
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