Okay to change default zImage link/load address?

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Sat Feb 10 10:25:33 EST 2007


On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:21:00PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:40:10AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> 
> > Note that the zImage is already build -fPIC and capable of relocating
> > itself if loaded at an address other than 4MB...
> 
> That doesn't address the issue.
> 
> Many firmwares look at the address in the ELF header and that's where
> they download it, period.  Right now, that address is 4MB, period.
> 4MB doesn't work on some platforms so I'm looking for an acceptable
> alternative.

David, if I sounded rude, I didn't mean to.

It may sound better if you do this:  :)

s/, period/(can't be overridden)/

Mark



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