ZTEXTADDR

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Jul 29 09:26:24 EDT 2013


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 09:12:58PM +0800, zhaobin xv wrote:
> hi
>    I see some blogs aboot ZTEXTADDR
> in linux 2.4.18 :
> in kernel/arch/arm/boot/Makefile:
>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARCH_S3C2410),y)
> ZTEXTADDR = 0x30008000
> ZRELADDR = 0x30008000
> endif
> but
> in linux 2.6. :
> in kernel/arch/arm/boot/Makefile:
> ZTEXTADDR = 0
> 
> 
> I want to know why to change?
> ZTEXTADDR is link addr or phs addr?

ZTEXTADDR is mostly irrelevant now for everyone who places the kernel
image in RAM, because the entire thing is position independent.



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