[PATCH 1/4] bootm: Allow ignoring the load address with kernel_noload

[Tom Rini]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 01:03:51PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:

> This image type is supposed to ignore the load address. But at present
> it fails if the load address is missing. If it is zero, the image is
> loaded at address 0, which may not work on all boards.
> 
> Make use of the kernel_addr_r environment variable, instead, since this
> seems to be a more reliable final address for the kernel.
> 
> Another option would be to create a new Kconfig for this, or to use a
> region of memory known to be free, e.g. calculated from the DRAM banks.
> But in any case we should try to avoid conflicting with the
> kernel_addr_r variable. So the approach in this patch seems reasonable
> to me.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

How are you creating the image in question here? A noload FIT is
supposed to just supposed to go from where it is. Where do things fall
down later?

-- 
Tom
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