Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:04:11 -0500 (EST) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] msm: io: I/O register definitions for MSM8960 |
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 17 December 2010, David Brown wrote: > > I'm not sure really what to do about PHYS_OFFSET. This is kind of the > > big thing that has kept us so far from making our SOCs multiply > > selectable. I could move this into a Kconfig option, but it would > > still need to be selected by the SOC. It is unfortunate that most of > > our SOCs have different enough memory configurations that these are > > mostly different. Even 8960/8660 will probably have future variants > > that are at different addresses. > > I think there are people working on relocatable kernels already, > and we definitely need this for the other work in progress of > doing kernel binaries that work across different SoC families, > as well as for doing a single kernel that can be used both for > booting the system and for kdump. > > You don't need to worry about PHYS_OFFSET at the platform level, > we'll get there in a few months for all ARM platforms.
... or in a few days even. I'm currently working on the patch making PHYS_OFFSET patched into the kernel at run time. I'm currently looking at what is needed to make it work also with Thumb2.
Nicolas
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