Re: [PATCH] ARM: Set proper TEXT_OFFSET for IPQ806x

[Andy Gross]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 02:00:06PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 05:45:41PM +0530, Varadarajan Narayanan wrote:
> > RAM starts at 0x40000000 for IPQ. The lower 21MB of RAM is used
> > for Shared Memory and the kernel can start from 0x41500000.
> 
> Why do people keep creating crap like this?  Each time something like
> this is created, it means that you _need_ to have a special kernel for
> your platform and you can't be part of the single zImage.
> 
> Please, rather than creating crap like this, find a better way.

In the case of the IPQ, we don't use the zImage because the decompress requires
a larger jump than we can do on that platform.  Having this change at least gets
us back 2MB of memory.

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