From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932829AbZJLRxF (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:53:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932667AbZJLRxE (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:53:04 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:51805 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932575AbZJLRxD (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:53:03 -0400 From: Rob Landley Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: "Mark A. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Expose BOOT_RAW Kconfig Symbol Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:51:51 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.28-15-generic; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <31014a580910120227j3023d3f0t947f6feeba427487@mail.gmail.com> <31014a580910120231p58c4f4ebi122c9232a7c288f3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <31014a580910120231p58c4f4ebi122c9232a7c288f3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910121251.51590.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Mark Miller This exposes the CONFIG_BOOT_RAW symbol in Kconfig. This is needed on certain Broadcom chipsets running CFE in order to load the kernel. Signed-off-by: Mark Miller Acked-by: Rob Landley --- arch/mips/Kconfig | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig index f4af967..023604d 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig @@ -670,9 +670,6 @@ config ARC config ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC bool -config BOOT_RAW - bool - config CEVT_BCM1480 bool @@ -1887,6 +1884,18 @@ config SECCOMP If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. +config BOOT_RAW + bool "Enable the kernel to be executed from the load address" + default n + help + Allow the kernel to be executed from the load address for + bootloaders which cannot read the ELF format. This places + a jump to start_kernel at the load address. + + If unsure, say N. + + + endmenu config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds