Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] riscv: Remove CONFIG_PHYS_RAM_BASE_FIXED

[Emil Renner Berthing]

On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 at 13:51, Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Make the physical RAM base address available for all kernels, not only
> XIP kernels as it will allow to simplify address conversions macros.

Am I just reading it wrong or won't this patch make it so that the same kernel
can't run on two chips with physical ram starting at different addresses?

/Emil

> ---
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index b58596b141fc..3d8e7e4bb45c 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -493,13 +493,8 @@ config STACKPROTECTOR_PER_TASK
>         def_bool y
>         depends on STACKPROTECTOR && CC_HAVE_STACKPROTECTOR_TLS
>
> -config PHYS_RAM_BASE_FIXED
> -       bool "Explicitly specified physical RAM address"
> -       default n
> -
>  config PHYS_RAM_BASE
>         hex "Platform Physical RAM address"
> -       depends on PHYS_RAM_BASE_FIXED
>         default "0x80000000"
>         help
>           This is the physical address of RAM in the system. It has to be
> @@ -512,7 +507,6 @@ config XIP_KERNEL
>         # This prevents XIP from being enabled by all{yes,mod}config, which
>         # fail to build since XIP doesn't support large kernels.
>         depends on !COMPILE_TEST
> -       select PHYS_RAM_BASE_FIXED
>         help
>           Execute-In-Place allows the kernel to run from non-volatile storage
>           directly addressable by the CPU, such as NOR flash. This saves RAM
> --
> 2.30.2
>
>
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