[U-Boot] image: android: handle default kernel address

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sun May 10 16:07:53 CEST 2015


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:53:12PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:

> The two tools that create android boot images, mkbootimg and the fastboot
> client, set the kernel address by default to 0x10008000.
> 
> U-boot always honors this field, and will try to relocate the kernel to
> whatever value is set in the header, which won't be mapped to the actual RAM on
> most platforms, resulting in the kernel obviously not booting.
> 
> All the targets in U-Boot right now will download the android boot image to
> CONFIG_SYS_LOAD_ADDR, which means that it will already have been downloaded to
> some location that is suitable for execution.
> 
> In order to have the kernel booting even with the default boot image kernel
> address, if that address is used, just execute the kernel where it is.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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