Hi Brendan, On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Brendan Conoboy <blc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/26/2013 04:49 PM, Graeme Russ wrote: >> >> 4. Relocatable kernel (like x86) > > > If I understand correctly it already is relocatable. This is simply the > address that uboot is instructed to load the kernel into memory at. So why worry? Just have the load address in the U-Boot environment. >> 5. Have U-Boot process uImage to adjust for load location (U-Boot >> already does a similar thing for itself) > > > Likewise, this is the address uboot is instructed to load the kernel at. My > naive understanding is that uboot loads the header, analyzes it, then loads > the rest of the file based on the content of that header. If the header > instructs uboot to load the kernel into non-existent memory it not operate > correctly. Not 100% sure the mechanics of U-Boot loading an ARM kernel but I think it just loads it blindly where it is told to (i.e. does not analyse the header) Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
