Re: [PATCH 2/5] MIPS: Allow platforms to specify the decompressor load address

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On Monday 23 February 2015 17:31:44 Andrew Bresticker wrote:
> Platforms which use raw zboot images may need to link the image at
> a fixed address if there is no other way to communicate the load
> address to the bootloader.  Allow the per-platform Kbuild files
> to specify an optional zboot image load address (zload-y) and fall
> back to calc_vmlinuz_load_addr if unset.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx>

No objections to the patch, but have you considered doing the
same thing as ARM's AUTO_ZRELADDR, where we calculate the
address at runtime from the entry point?

I assume this is the same kind of address you are talking
about here; if not, nevermind.

	Arnd





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