Dear Stephen Warren,
In message <4eb87375.1040...@nvidia.com> you wrote:
>
> The only place that has full knowledge of the board's memory layout is
> the U-Boot environment for that board, and hence I assert that the
> U-Boot environment should define where to load the kernel (and initrd
> and FDT), and if U-Boot must copy them, where to copy them to. In
> particular, the creator of the uImage can't possibly pick these values
> and expect them to work everywhere.
But as you said yourself, the (raw) kernel is not relocatable. It
gets loaded and started at pre-defined (at image build time)
addresses. Only the kernel wrapper adds the complexity you are
complaining about. Drop it, then.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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