[PATCH 8/10] powerpc: Set entry point and text address in linker script

[Michael Ellerman]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:35, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:42:22 +1000 (EST) Michael Ellerman 
<michael at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> > Currently we set the kernel entry point and the address of the text
> > section in the Makefile, using CONFIG_KERNEL_START.
> >
> > But we've already got <asm/page.h> in the linker script, so we can just
> > use KERNELBASE directly. That means if we ever change KERNELBASE there's
> > one less place to change it.
>
> So you should probably remove CONFIG_KERNEL_START from Kconfig if it is no
> longer used.

Unfortunately it's not quite that simple. Some of the PPC platforms use
CONFIG_KERNEL_START to set KERNELBASE to something different, so we
still need the config variable for them.

cheers

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