Re: [RFC 0/5] drivers: Add boot constraints core

From: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Date: Thu Jun 29 2017 - 09:06:04 EST


On 29.06.2017 12:49, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

The location of the frame buffer is unknown to the decompressor - and
as the decompressor self-relocates itself (using purely assembly code),
it could relocate itself on top of the frame buffer, causing the "nice"
image to become very colourful.

Could the bootloader pass safe (or blocked) memory regions to the
decompressor ?

--mtx