Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] bootwrapper: Allow specifying of image physical offset

From: David Gibson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:37:05 +1100

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:55:51AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Normally we assume kernel images will be loaded at offset 0. However
> there are situations, like when the kernel itself is running at a non-zero
> physical address, that we don't want to load it at 0.
> 
> Allow the wrapper to take an offset.  We use this when building u-boot images.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[email-masked]>

Hrm.  It concerns me that with the patch as it stands,
CONFIG_MEMORY_START looks like a fairly universal option, but it will
only be respected on u-boot platforms (and only new u-boot, not cuboot
at that).

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