I'm planning to work with a very minimal boot loader, and I'd like to hard-code a jump to kernel_entry in my boot loader. I got tired of having kernel_entry moving around, so I just moved it to the top of head.S, just afte the ".fill 0x280". That places kernel_entry at the same place every time. It's always at LOADADDR+0x280. But wait a minute... the 0x280 is there to leave room for the exception vectors. Doesn't that only make sense if LOADADDR=0x80000000? Isn't this allocating the space for the exception vectors twice? Why not remove the .fill, then the kernel entry point will always be exactly LOADADDR? This would break any configuration that has LOADADDR=0x80000000, but the only configuration like that is CONFIG_ALGOR_P4032, and that could easily be modified to LOADADDR=0x80000280 to get the same effect. I also removed the .fill, and now kernel_entry is always exactly LOADADDR, and that makes my bootloader easier to maintain. Is this worth changing in cvs, or did I miss something? Thanks. Gerald
