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

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello Arnd,

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 04:10:37PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 21 March 2014 15:32:24 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:16:20PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > 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.
> > My objection isn't about having only little RAM. AUTO_ZRELADDR is about
> > guessing the physical address corresponding to PAGE_OFFSET. But without
> > an MMU there is nothing to guess. So I wonder if the better change would
> > be to do:
> > 
> >         #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
> >         #ifdef CONFIG_AUTO_ZRELADDR
> >                 ... guess zreladdress based on instruction pointer
> >         #else
> >                 ... use zreladdr from Makefile.boot
> >         #endif
> >         #else
> >                 ... use zreladdr = PAGE_OFFSET
> >         #endif
> > 
> 
> I don't see a reason to change the existing logic, it works for
> both MMU and NOMMU kernels, and you are talking about *three* instructions
> here.
it doesn't matter how many instructions are involved. The relevant
difference is that with my approach you fix the problem for all no-MMU
platforms, with yours you only fix efm32. (OK, I think there are not too
many no-MMU platforms, but still.) An even easier implementation would
be to add something like:

	ifeq($(zreladdr-y)$(CONFIG_MMU),)
	zreladdr-y := CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET + CONFIG_TEXT_OFFSET
	endif

to arch/arm/boot/Makefile.

But I don't care much, if you still want to make EFM32 select
AUTO_ZRELADDR go ahead.

Best regards
Uwe

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