Hi Brendan, I may be way of the mark with my suggestions as I am not that familiar with ARM, but here goes:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Brendan Conoboy <[email protected]> wrote: > The trouble is, there is no unified $ubootAddress available. The pandaboard > uses 0x80008000, highbank and tegra use 0x00008000, a10 and exynos5 use > 0x40008000, and so forth. Not sure about beaglebone. If we want to realize > the dream of having a unified F19 release we need a solution to this > problem. I see three options: > > 1. Use the 0x00008000 address for highbank/tegra, demand bootz support for > everybody else. Since we control the panda/beagle/beaglebone uboots they > would be covered. Not clear on what this means for exynos5, but exynos5 > will use an LPAE kernel so that's a separate uimage already. > > 2. Generate multiple uImage files from a single kernel, then load the > appropriate uImage on boot. > > 3. Split up images to cope. > > All 3 are viable, none are desirable. Is there a 4th option? If not, what > do want to go with? 4. Relocatable kernel (like x86) 5. Have U-Boot process uImage to adjust for load location (U-Boot already does a similar thing for itself) Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ arm mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
