[RFC 0/5] drivers: Add boot constraints core

Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult enrico.weigelt at gr13.net
Thu Jun 29 06:05:42 PDT 2017


On 29.06.2017 12:49, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> The location of the frame buffer is unknown to the decompressor - and
> as the decompressor self-relocates itself (using purely assembly code),
> it could relocate itself on top of the frame buffer, causing the "nice"
> image to become very colourful.

Could the bootloader pass safe (or blocked) memory regions to the
decompressor ?

--mtx




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