i.MX consolidation patches

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:22:51PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:58:28PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:03:21AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > That's rather my point: PATCH_PHYS_TO_VIRT=y does not mean that the
> > > uImage is unbootable - it's only unbootable if the uImage has a
> > > load/start address which is invalid for the platform.
> > > 
> > > So, maybe the idea of changing LOADADDR is better.  Or maybe providing
> > > Makefile.boot with a new variable 'nouimage' which can provide the
> > > same functionality - and you may wish to provide LOADADDR on the command
> > > line and detect that, in which case it should override this lockout.
> > 
> > Then I have the same problem in my platform because I have no clear
> > condition on which to set this variable. Currently there is no "more
> > than one zreladdr" indicator. Maybe a variant of the following patch
> > is the least of all evils. A mechanism to specify the load address on
> > the command line could be added.
> 
> I think your patch looks good so far, but with one exception - we probably
> want to detect off LOADADDR so that we can override it by passing
> 'make uImage LOADADDR=blah'.  That would allow uImage's to be generated
> without having to learn all the silly the mkimage command line arguments.
> 
> The other issue here is that having multiple words in ZRELADDR without
> AUTO_ZRELADDR enabled in the decompressor is going to lead to decompressor
> link time errors - so that's something else which needs thinking about.

Having multiple ZRELADDR without AUTO_ZRELADDR is broken anyway, so all
we have to do here is to provide a hint to the user instead of failing
in the linker, right?



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