[PATCH] detect conflicting zreladdrs

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Aug 16 02:46:14 EDT 2011


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:44:55PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> With CONFIG_ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT and CONFIG_AUTO_ZRELADDR the kernel
> is ready to calculate zreladdr at runtime. Currently the boards specify
> zreladdr using := in their Makefile.boot. This means the value maybe
> overwritten silently if multiple zreladdr-y exist. This series changes
> the := into += so that we have multiple words in zreladdr instead.
> This makes it possible to catch conflicting zreladdrs during build.
> 
> Without CONFIG_AUTO_ZRELADDR=y multiple zreladdrs are not allowed for
> zImages, so we bail out if we detect it.
> 
> uImages are generally incompatible with multiple zreladdrs, so we
> bail out if we detect it. In this case an uImage can still be built
> by specifying LOADADDR= on the command line.
> 
> Sascha
> 
> Sascha Hauer (3):
>       ARM: Check for multiple zreladdrs
>       ARM: Check for multiple load addresses before building a uImage
>       ARM: allow to detect conflicting zreladdrs

Russell, any comments to this series? Ok to check into the patch system?

Sascha


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