[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] arm: use $loadaddr as the standalone entry point

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 09:36:35PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Max,
> 
> In message <1502572898.17070.11.camel at gmail.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, will do. The issue is that linking the standalone application
> > to have its text segment at a hardcoded address is less
> > likely to work than using an address provided by the board
> 
> This may (or may not) be the case - but no matter how youlook at it,
> chosing CONFIG_LOADADDR is definitely the wrong approach, as the
> LOAD address has nothing to do with the ENTRY point address, so it
> must in no case ever play a role when linking an image.
> 
> > configuration as a possible load address.
> 
> You are confused in your wording, and I'm afraid in your thinking,
> too.
> 
> load address != entry point.

But we're talking about CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR not
CONFIG_STANDALONE_ENTRY_POINT.  What we've been doing in
arch/arm/config.mk has been on my to fix list for a long time, because
it's been wrong for so many boards.  Setting this to CONFIG_LOADADDR is
a reasonable default value.

-- 
Tom
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