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brcm63xx: move kernel load address to 8MiB

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Fixes boot when uncompressed kernel is > 4 MiB (#19251).

Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>

SVN-Revision: 44984
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Jonas Gorski 2015-03-25 15:34:59 +00:00
parent ee0140a678
commit 065d6e9047
3 changed files with 69 additions and 1 deletions
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target/linux/brcm63xx/image/Makefile
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@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/image.mk
LOADADDR = 0x80010000 # RAM start + 64K
LOADADDR = 0x80800000 # RAM start + 8MB
KERNEL_ENTRY = $(LOADADDR) # Newer kernels add a jmp to the kernel_entry at the start of the binary
RAMSIZE = 0x02000000 # 32MB
LZMA_TEXT_START = 0x81800000 # 32MB - 8MB

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From b99815f47828214b298178b0d0e2a9f3aae9f24a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 11:49:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: BCM63XX: move kernel behind CFE
CFE will load itself to offset 4 MiB (or 6 MiB) in memory occupying a
bit over one MiB. Traditionally the kernel will get linked to and loaded
at offset 64k.
This will pose a problem if the kernel size reaches 4 MiB - 64 kB, as
CFE will start overwriting itself. This can easily happen by including a
ramdisk image in the kernel.
While for net-booted elf kernels this can be worked around by wrapping
them in a lzma boot loader, on-flash images require the kernel to be
lzma compressed. This would cause inefficient double compression.
Luckily we have full control over where the kernel will be extracted to
and the entry point to be called, so move the kernel to behind CFE.
---
arch/mips/bcm63xx/Platform | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/Platform b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/Platform
index 5f86b2f..ee73f8f 100644
--- a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/Platform
+++ b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/Platform
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
platform-$(CONFIG_BCM63XX) += bcm63xx/
cflags-$(CONFIG_BCM63XX) += \
-I$(srctree)/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-bcm63xx/
-load-$(CONFIG_BCM63XX) := 0xffffffff80010000
+load-$(CONFIG_BCM63XX) := 0xffffffff80800000
--
1.7.10.4

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From b99815f47828214b298178b0d0e2a9f3aae9f24a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 11:49:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: BCM63XX: move kernel behind CFE
CFE will load itself to offset 4 MiB (or 6 MiB) in memory occupying a
bit over one MiB. Traditionally the kernel will get linked to and loaded
at offset 64k.
This will pose a problem if the kernel size reaches 4 MiB - 64 kB, as
CFE will start overwriting itself. This can easily happen by including a
ramdisk image in the kernel.
While for net-booted elf kernels this can be worked around by wrapping
them in a lzma boot loader, on-flash images require the kernel to be
lzma compressed. This would cause inefficient double compression.
Luckily we have full control over where the kernel will be extracted to
and the entry point to be called, so move the kernel to behind CFE.
---
arch/mips/bcm63xx/Platform | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/Platform b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/Platform
index 5f86b2f..ee73f8f 100644
--- a/arch/mips/bcm63xx/Platform
+++ b/arch/mips/bcm63xx/Platform
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
platform-$(CONFIG_BCM63XX) += bcm63xx/
cflags-$(CONFIG_BCM63XX) += \
-I$(srctree)/arch/mips/include/asm/mach-bcm63xx/
-load-$(CONFIG_BCM63XX) := 0xffffffff80010000
+load-$(CONFIG_BCM63XX) := 0xffffffff80800000
--
1.7.10.4