[PATCH v2 1/3] arm64: Mention 4K aligned load addresses in the PIE Kconfig help

Edgar E. Iglesias edgar.iglesias at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 11:07:47 CEST 2020


From: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias at xilinx.com>

Mention the requirement of 4K aligned load addresses in the
help section for the POSITION_INDEPENDENT option.

Suggested-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias at xilinx.com>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index f30c2639ec..c144c08612 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ config POSITION_INDEPENDENT
 	  information that is embedded in the binary to support U-Boot
 	  relocating itself to the top-of-RAM later during execution.
 
+	  When this option is enabled, U-Boot needs to be loaded at a
+	  4K aligned address.
+
 config INIT_SP_RELATIVE
 	bool "Specify the early stack pointer relative to the .bss section"
 	help
-- 
2.25.1



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