[PATCH 2/3] [44x] Enable CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for PPC44x

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Oct 26 02:34:25 EST 2011


On 10/12/2011 09:15 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 18:24 +0530, Suzuki Poulose wrote:
>> On 10/10/11 23:30, Scott Wood wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2011 04:56 AM, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
>>>> #if defined(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE)&&  defined(CONFIG_44x)
>>>> #define __va(x) ((void *)(unsigned long)((phys_addr_t)(x) - PHYSICAL_START + (KERNELBASE + RELOC_OFFSET)))
>>>> #define __pa(x) ((unsigned long)(x) + PHYSICAL_START - (KERNELBASE + RELOC_OFFSET))
>>>> #endif
>>>
>>> Why is this 44x-specific?
>>
>> As of now, we compile with relocations only for the 44x. We could make this
>> generic once the approach is accepted by everyone and implemented on the other
>> platforms. 
> 
> This is not the place to enforce that kind of thing.  If
> CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is only supported on one platform, then do:
> 
> 	config RELOCATABLE
> 		depends on 44x
> 
> and take the 44x reference out of the #ifdef.

...but please first rename the existing, different CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
behavior that is currently supported on e500.

-Scott



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