On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:04:11AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Friday 17 December 2010, David Brown wrote: > > > I'm not sure really what to do about PHYS_OFFSET. This is kind of the > > > big thing that has kept us so far from making our SOCs multiply > > > selectable. I could move this into a Kconfig option, but it would > > > still need to be selected by the SOC. It is unfortunate that most of > > > our SOCs have different enough memory configurations that these are > > > mostly different. Even 8960/8660 will probably have future variants > > > that are at different addresses. > > > > I think there are people working on relocatable kernels already, > > and we definitely need this for the other work in progress of > > doing kernel binaries that work across different SoC families, > > as well as for doing a single kernel that can be used both for > > booting the system and for kdump. > > > > You don't need to worry about PHYS_OFFSET at the platform level, > > we'll get there in a few months for all ARM platforms. > > ... or in a few days even. I'm currently working on the patch making > PHYS_OFFSET patched into the kernel at run time. I'm currently looking > at what is needed to make it work also with Thumb2. So where do we stand with: http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/lurker/message/20101110.175549.62a0b058.en.html Is this something which should be queued for this merge window? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
