On 25 March 2014 03:34, Joel Fernandes <jo...@ti.com> wrote: > Loading kernel at offset 0x10000 works only for zImage, but not for Image, > because the kernel expect the start of decompressed kernel (.head.text) to be > at an address that's a distance that's 16MB aligned from PAGE_OFFSET + > TEXT_OFFSET (see vmlinux.lds.S). This check is enfornced in __fixup_pv_table > in > arch/arm/kernel/head.S TEXT_OFFSET is 0x00008000, so a 16MB alignment needs to > have a "0x8000" in the lower 16 bits so that they cancel out. Currently the > offset Qemu loads it at is 0x10000. > > With zImage, this need is met because zImage loads the uncompressed Image > correctly, however when loading an Image and executing directly Qemu is > required it to load it at the correct location. Doing so, doesn't break Qemu's > zImage loading. With this patch, both zImage and Image work correctly. > > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <jo...@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> I'll put this in target-arm.next after 2.0 has released. thanks -- PMM
