[PATCH] riscv: head: use 0 as the default text_offset

Andreas Schwab schwab at suse.de
Mon Nov 28 08:03:46 PST 2022


On Nov 28 2022, Jisheng Zhang wrote:

> Commit 0f327f2aaad6 ("RISC-V: Add an Image header that boot loader can
> parse.") adds an image header which "is based on ARM64 boot image
> header and provides an opportunity to combine both ARM64 & RISC-V
> image headers in future.". At that time, arm64's default text_offset
> is 0x80000, this is to give "512 KB of guaranteed BSS space to put
> the swapper page tables" as commit cfa7ede20f13 ("arm64: set TEXT_OFFSET
> to 0x0 in preparation for removing it entirely") pointed out, but
> riscv doesn't need the space, so use 0 as the default text_offset.

Doesn't that clash with the memory reserved for openSBI?

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