Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:45:41 +0200 | From | Michal Simek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 8/8] ARM: vmlinux.lds: Setup correct entry point to physical address |
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On 06/18/2012 01:37 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:30:11PM +0200, Michal Simek wrote: >> linker script setups entry point to virtual address. >> >> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek<monstr@monstr.eu> >> >> --- >> Not sure what is the reason to setup entry point to virtual address. >> --- >> arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 4 +++- >> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S >> index b996bc0..de43b01 100644 >> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S >> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S >> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ >> #endif >> >> OUTPUT_ARCH(arm) >> -ENTRY(stext) >> +ENTRY(arm_start) > > stext etc better stay as the virtual address through this change. The > kernel makes use of all stext/etext etc symbols as virtual addresses.
I am not changing stext to physical address. Just elf entry point. What's it reason to have entry point in virtual address space?
Thanks, Michal
-- Michal Simek, Ing. (M.Eng) w: www.monstr.eu p: +42-0-721842854 Maintainer of Linux kernel 2.6 Microblaze Linux - http://www.monstr.eu/fdt/ Microblaze U-BOOT custodian
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