[PATCH 4/5] [ARM] Auto calculate ZRELADDR and provide option for exceptions
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Sep 8 05:14:44 EDT 2010
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 08:52:54PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Russell,
>
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:55:04AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:48:06AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:27:23PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And while we're here, why hasn't anyone removed the zreladdr
> > > > definitions in Makefile.boot yet? Or do we still need them and
> > > > we now have the same information defined in two different places?
> > > >
> > > > This all looks like a half-done job at the moment. Please clean it up.
> > > The original series removed all the 'Makefile.boot's IIRC. Currently
> > > the params_phys-y value is needed though. So should I send a patch that
> > > just removes the zreladdr values?
> > I looked into that and found some more issues. I hope I catched them
> > all now. While doing that removing the zreladdr lines was nearly for
> > free. So I did that, too.
> I just noticed that you already started working here on your master
> branch. (Commit cbb288bf874f86 hides ZRELADDR.)
>
> In a different thread you said you might revert the commit introducing
> ZRELADDR. In case you are not satisfied by Eric's and my work on this
> series let my point out that I sent the a patch identically to
> cbb288bf874f86 in reply to the mail you link to in cbb288bf874f86's
> commit message already a month ago.
>
> Are you OK with my series? If yes, can you please say so, then I will
> rebase on top of your current master branch.
See one of my other replies today; I think it'll just be better in the
long run to get rid of this CONFIG_ZRELADDR idea. Our original way
of doing this was simpler, less error prone, and less conflict prone.
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