Patch boot/common/relocate.S to start kernel at 0x000c

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Mar 5 12:03:13 EST 2003


In message <15973.18737.651334.824024 at argo.ozlabs.ibm.com> you wrote:
>
> Why are we still using locations 0 and 4 if that is causing trouble?
> Why not change to 0xf0 and 0xf4 or something else out of the way?  We

BTW: _all_ this writing to kernel text is a Bad  Thing  (TM),  as  it
makes XIP (for example running from ROM) really difficult.


Wolfgang Denk

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