[U-Boot] arm64: Juno/FVP: adjust kernel load address

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Jan 9 04:35:04 CET 2016


On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 03:43:36PM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:

> The default kernel load offset for an arm64 kernel is 0x80000, so
> U-Boot takes cares of moving the loaded kernel to a matching memory
> location just before booting it.
> Since we run with caches off, this takes a while for any decently
> sized kernel - with no output explaining the reason for the delay
> (unless one uses a DEBUG build).
> By adjusting the default load offset for Juno and VFP to be 512K
> aligned in the first place we can skip this copying and boot much
> faster.
> Tested on Juno.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> Tested-by: Ryan Harkin <ryan.harkin at linaro.org>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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