[PATCH] arm/tegra: select AUTO_ZRELADDR by default

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Fri Oct 14 16:14:12 EDT 2011


On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 02:01:07PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > The way I'm restructuring things around this is that AUTO_ZRELADDR will 
> > always be active by default, just like ARM_PATCH_PHYS_VIRT now.  This 
> > platform specific exclusion thinking is a step backward so I'd prefer if 
> > people would refrain from going there for the moment.
> 
> Are you expecting everyone to change the way they load the zImage
> overnight then?

No, of course.  But adding restrictions in the kernel build because 
u-Boot's own image format dictates such restrictions doesn't make sense.  
Those restrictions must be pushed towards the uImage encapsulation step, 
not higher the kernel config hierarchy.


Nicolas



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