Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/3] image: Allow images to indicate they're loadable at any address

Dear Stephen Warren,

In message 4EB87375.1040100@nvidia.com you wrote:

The only place that has full knowledge of the board's memory layout is the U-Boot environment for that board, and hence I assert that the U-Boot environment should define where to load the kernel (and initrd and FDT), and if U-Boot must copy them, where to copy them to. In particular, the creator of the uImage can't possibly pick these values and expect them to work everywhere.

But as you said yourself, the (raw) kernel is not relocatable. It gets loaded and started at pre-defined (at image build time) addresses. Only the kernel wrapper adds the complexity you are complaining about. Drop it, then.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk