Re: [RFC 11/13] MIPS: JZ4750D: Add Kbuild files

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On 24 October 2012 20:16, Maarten ter Huurne <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2012 21:43:59 Antony Pavlov wrote:
>> Add the Kbuild files for the JZ4750D architecture and adds JZ4750D support
>> to the MIPS Kbuild files.
> [snip]
>> diff --git a/arch/mips/jz4750d/Platform b/arch/mips/jz4750d/Platform
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..2e4e050
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/mips/jz4750d/Platform
>> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
>> +platform-$(CONFIG_MACH_JZ4750D)      += jz4750d/
>> +cflags-$(CONFIG_MACH_JZ4750D)        +=
>> -I$(srctree)/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-jz4750d
>> +load-$(CONFIG_MACH_JZ4750D)  += 0xffffffff80010000
>
> What is the purpose of padding the load address to 64 bits?
>
> The reason I'm asking is that we encountered a bug with that when creating a
> u-boot image on a 32-bit host machine: the mkimage tool will only parse the
> first 8 hex digits and then inserts the wrong load address into the uImage.

I have just copied jz4740/Platform.

I don't use U-Boot, so I have never faced this problem.

-- 
Best regards,
  Antony Pavlov



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