[PATCH 10/62] ARM: efm32: select AUTO_ZRELADDR

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Mar 20 18:16:20 EDT 2014


On Thursday 20 March 2014 21:48:47 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 08:29:07PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > The efm32 platform does not provide a zreladdr-y line its Makefile.boot,
> > so we always have to use CONFIG_AUTO_ZRELADDR in order to successfully
> > build and link a zImage.
> I wonder why you need to AUTO_ZRELADDR (which is there to guess
> zreladdr) while efm32 doesn't have an MMU and so there is nothing to
> guess. So I think this patch fixes a build problem, but it's not a good
> change.

It is required in order to build a compressed zImage file. You mentioned
before that your system does not have enough RAM to support this, but
the compile-time option exists, and there is no dependency on MMU support
for it, nor should there be.

	Arnd



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