Re: [PATCH 1/1] Change the default link address for pSeries zImage kernels.
From: Michael Ellerman <hidden>
Date: 2008-06-23 12:20:37
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 18:13 +1000, Tony Breeds wrote:
Currently we set the start of the .text section to be 4Mb for pSeries. In situations where the zImage is > 8Mb we'll fail to boot (due to overlapping with OF). Move .text in a zImage from 4MB to 64MB (well past OF).
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quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c index 95b8fd6..93a1a84 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/oflib.c@@ -168,8 +168,19 @@ void *of_claim(unsigned long virt, unsigned long size, unsigned long align) void *of_vmlinux_alloc(unsigned long size) { - void *p = malloc(size); - + unsigned long start = (unsigned long)_start, end = (unsigned long)_end; + void *addr; + void *p; + + /* With some older POWER4 firmware the we need to claim the area
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