On 01/18, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 03:27:23PM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > Some qcom platforms need a specific text offset because the first > > 2MB of memory is reserved for shared memory. Let's just always > > shift the text segment up by 2MB when ARCH_QCOM is selected so > > that we don't have to specify the specific platforms that exhibit > > this problem in Kconfig. > > I was really hoping that this sillyness would stop, but I guess > expecting it to stop is asking too much... > > Is there really no other option? > The only other option is to make up some qcom specific config like I_HAVE_A_QCOM_SOC_THAT_NEEDS_2MB_OFFSET that can be selected when the configurator (not a word) knows that they are using that SoC. Overall, this practice has stopped inside the company over 3 years ago and has not continued as far as I know. This patch is just taking the easy way out and forcing ARCH_QCOM to always do the shift. -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- 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
