Subject: [RFC PATCH 8/8] ARM: vmlinux.lds: Setup correct entry point to physical address

From: [email-masked] (Michal Simek)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:45:41 +0200

On 06/18/2012 01:37 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:30:11PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote:
>> linker script setups entry point to virtual address.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek<[email-masked]>
>>
>> ---
>> Not sure what is the reason to setup entry point to virtual address.
>> ---
>>   arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |    4 +++-
>>   1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> index b996bc0..de43b01 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
>> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
>>   #endif
>>
>>   OUTPUT_ARCH(arm)
>> -ENTRY(stext)
>> +ENTRY(arm_start)
>
> stext etc better stay as the virtual address through this change.  The
> kernel makes use of all stext/etext etc symbols as virtual addresses.

I am not changing stext to physical address. Just elf entry point.
What's it reason to have entry point in virtual address space?

Thanks,
Michal

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