Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] uImage: return base load address

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 16:05 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > Return the base address at which the image was loaded so that
> callers may keep
> > track of currently occupied guest memory.
> >   
> 
> Why is it that you need this information if no other callers have needed 
> it before?

As far as I can see, other users are making assumptions about maximum
kernel size and simply hardcoding some addresses.

For example arm_load_kernel() seems to always load the initrd at 8MB,
regardless of where the ELF or uImage kernel was loaded. (In the case of
a "flat" kernel, that's loaded at 0x1000, and probably isn't bigger than
8MB...)

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center