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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] zImage: Exception vector support
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:06:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172250373.1902.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45DB1759.2010302@am.sony.com>


> Having those vectors makes a 4MB dead gap in the binary image.  The ps3's
> loader supports a gziped image so there is no problem, but for the general
> case of binary images, there is no way we can have those always in there.

That's still a bit gross even with a zImage... right now, I don't think
you can specify the link address per platform, can you ? Would be better
if it was set to 0 for ps3... that or have the reset vector be at BASE +
0x100 ...

Ben.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-23 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-18  1:17 [RFC 3/3] zImage: Exception vector support Geoff Levand
2007-02-18  1:40 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-19 15:03   ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 19:55     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 20:40       ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 20:51         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-19 21:35     ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-19 21:39       ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-19 21:51         ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-19  0:34 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-02-20  2:25 ` David Gibson
2007-02-20 14:23   ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-20 15:44     ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-20 16:02       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-21  0:16         ` David Gibson
2007-02-23 17:06         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-02-23 17:52           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-02-21  0:16       ` David Gibson
2007-02-23 17:06       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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