ARM: 8096/1: Describe required sort order for textofs-y (TEXT_OFFSET)
authorDaniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Tue, 8 Jul 2014 12:50:50 +0000 (13:50 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 11:29:27 +0000 (12:29 +0100)
The section of the makefile that determines the TEXT_OFFSET is sorted
by address so that, in multi-arch kernel builds, the architecture with the
most stringent requirements for the kernel base address gets to define
TEXT_OFFSET. The comment should reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/Makefile

index 6721fab..718913d 100644 (file)
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ CHECKFLAGS  += -D__arm__
 
 #Default value
 head-y         := arch/arm/kernel/head$(MMUEXT).o
+
+# Text offset. This list is sorted numerically by address in order to
+# provide a means to avoid/resolve conflicts in multi-arch kernels.
 textofs-y      := 0x00008000
 textofs-$(CONFIG_ARCH_CLPS711X) := 0x00028000
 # We don't want the htc bootloader to corrupt kernel during resume