[PATCH v3 1/4] arm64: Mention 4K aligned load addresses in the PIE Kconfig help

Edgar E. Iglesias edgar.iglesias at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 19:07:24 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 | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 80702c23d3..67286e8b5d 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ config POSITION_INDEPENDENT
 	help
 	  U-Boot expects to be linked to a specific hard-coded address, and to
 	  be loaded to and run from that address. This option lifts that
-	  restriction, thus allowing the code to be loaded to and executed
-	  from almost any address. This logic relies on the relocation
+	  restriction, thus allowing the code to be loaded to and executed from
+	  almost any 4K aligned address. This logic relies on the relocation
 	  information that is embedded in the binary to support U-Boot
 	  relocating itself to the top-of-RAM later during execution.
 
-- 
2.25.1



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