[PATCH v3 4/5] ARM: vexpress: Initial RS1 memory map support

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Dec 1 13:37:10 EST 2011


On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:10:50AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 04:38:26PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > Oh, dear.  Any pointers to the discussions on the u-boot side?
> 
> > Certainly.  Many different threads actually.  Here's a few:
> 
> OK, thanks - I see Stephen just followed up and Wolfgang seems
> moderately happy so hopefully there will be some progress.  It also
> occurs to me that there's at least Qi also using uImages, hopefully
> other bootloaders are going to be easier to deal with (or already cope).

Most boot loaders on ARM prior to uboot either allow the load address
to be specified via the command script, or they already load the kernel
to a fixed address into system RAM - using the kernels native zImage
binary format.

So these other boot loaders shouldn't be any problem what so ever.  In
fact they've already been working well with relocatable zImages for
many many years.



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