[PATCH 1/1] Change the default link address for pSeries zImage kernels.
Tony Breeds
tony at bakeyournoodle.com
Mon Jun 23 18:16:44 EST 2008
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 06:13:23PM +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
> Currently we set the start of the .text section to be 4Mb for pSeries.
> In situations where the zImage is > 8Mb we'll fail to boot (due to
> overlapping with OF). Move .text in a zImage from 4MB to 64MB (well past OF).
>
> We still will not be able to load large zImage unless we also move OF,
> to that end, add a note to the zImage ELF to move OF to 32Mb. If this
> is the very first kernel booted then we'll need to moev OF manually by
> setting real-base.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com>
> ---
Ooops should have said that this has been boot tested on power
3,4,5,5+,6 and JS20. POWER4 firmware seems to have aproblem manually
reloacting realbase but asside from that it booted.
Yours Tony
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