Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Calculate VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS based on the length of vmlinux.bin

[wu zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>]

Hi,

This is a very good fix:

$ ls -sh arch/mips/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin vmlinux
5.4M arch/mips/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin  6.9M vmlinux

Thanks very much.

Acked-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>

Regards,
Wu Zhangjin

On 8/31/10, Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fix VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS calculation to be based on the length of
> vmlinux.bin,
> the actual uncompressed kernel binary.
>
> Previously it was based on the length of KBUILD_IMAGE (the unstripped ELF
> vmlinux), which is bigger than vmlinux.bin.
> As a result, vmlinuz was loaded into a memory address higher then actually
> needed - a problem for small memory platforms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
> b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
> index ed9bb70..5fd7f7a 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ $(obj)/piggy.o: $(obj)/dummy.o $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.z FORCE
>  hostprogs-y := calc_vmlinuz_load_addr
>
>  VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS = $(shell $(obj)/calc_vmlinuz_load_addr \
> -             $(objtree)/$(KBUILD_IMAGE) $(VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS))
> +             $(obj)/vmlinux.bin $(VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS))
>
>  vmlinuzobjs-y += $(obj)/piggy.o
>
> --
> Shmulik Ladkani
>