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Commit 79c85419 authored by David Gibson's avatar David Gibson Committed by Paul Mackerras
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[POWERPC] zImage: Cleanup and improve prep_kernel()



This patch rewrites prep_kernel() in the zImage wrapper code to be
clearer and more flexible.  Notable changes:

	- Handling of the initrd image from prep_kernel() has moved
into a new prep_initrd() function.
	- The address of the initrd image is now added as device tree
properties, as the kernel expects.
	- We only copy a packaged initrd image to a new location if it
is in danger of being clobbered when the kernel moves to its final
location, instead of always.
	- By default we decompress the kernel directly to address 0,
instead of requiring it to relocate itself.  Platforms (such as OF)
where doing this could clobber still-live firmware data structures can
override the vmlinux_alloc hook to provide an alternate place to
decompress the kernel.
	- We no longer pass lots of information between functions in
global variables.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
parent ad9d2716
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