On Tuesday 23 October 2012 21:43:59 Antony Pavlov wrote:
> Add the Kbuild files for the JZ4750D architecture and adds JZ4750D support
> to the MIPS Kbuild files.
[snip]
> diff --git a/arch/mips/jz4750d/Platform b/arch/mips/jz4750d/Platform
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..2e4e050
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/mips/jz4750d/Platform
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +platform-$(CONFIG_MACH_JZ4750D) += jz4750d/
> +cflags-$(CONFIG_MACH_JZ4750D) +=
> -I$(srctree)/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-jz4750d
> +load-$(CONFIG_MACH_JZ4750D) += 0xffffffff80010000
What is the purpose of padding the load address to 64 bits?
The reason I'm asking is that we encountered a bug with that when creating a
u-boot image on a 32-bit host machine: the mkimage tool will only parse the
first 8 hex digits and then inserts the wrong load address into the uImage.
Bye,
Maarten
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