[PATCH 08/10] bootwrapper: Add a firmware-independent "raw" target.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Sep 11 00:30:06 EST 2007


On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 09:25:13AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > (5) space below load to decompress vmlinux (no vmlinux_alloc to 
> > fallback to malloc)
> > (6) all space above load address available to hold malloc region
> > (7) for console output (or input) from wrapper, on most cpus, some 
> > magic setup
> 
> For #5, I really need to get around to implementing setting the load
> address at build-time based on the size of vmlinux...

Actually, this isn't needed for raw images -- you can just load them
wherever you want (and thus yes, it should be documented).  cuboot needs
it, though.

-Scott



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