[PATCH] ARM: Fix relocation if image end past uncompressed kernel end

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Thu Apr 21 09:22:07 EDT 2011


On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> Otherwise we end up overwriting ourselves. This fixes booting
> on n900 after commit 6d7d0ae51574943bf571d269da3243257a2d15db
> (ARM: 6750/1: improvements to compressed/head.S).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>

I don't understand why this is needed.  The copy loop is explicitly 
copying from the end going backward exactly to cope with this 
possibility.

Hmmm...


Nicolas



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