On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 12:09 -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, Atish Patra wrote: > > > Currently, the last stage boot loaders such as U-Boot can accept > > only > > uImage which is an unnecessary additional step in automating boot > > process. > > > > Add an image header that boot loader understands and boot Linux > > from > > flat Image directly. > > ... > > > > +#if __riscv_xlen == 64 > > + /* Image load offset(2MB) from start of RAM */ > > + .dword 0x200000 > > +#else > > + /* Image load offset(4MB) from start of RAM */ > > + .dword 0x400000 > > +#endif > > Is there a rationale behind these load offset values? > 2MB/4MB alignment requirement is mandatory for current RISC-V kernel. Anup had a patch that tried to remove that but not accepted yet. https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10868465/ > > - Paul > > _______________________________________________ > linux-riscv mailing list > linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-riscv -- Regards, Atish
