Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:20:38 +0000 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r285563 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes Message-ID: <20150714232038.GS15828@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1436915808.1334.318.camel@freebsd.org> References: <201507142010.t6EKAAGD014980@repo.freebsd.org> <20150714230134.017a4512@bender.Home> <20150714223217.GP15828@FreeBSD.org> <1436915808.1334.318.camel@freebsd.org>
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--rNtUoUA3Tn0/N1iC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 05:16:48PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Tue, 2015-07-14 at 22:32 +0000, Glen Barber wrote: > > > > + <para revision=3D"282727">Support for booting relocatable ke= rnels > > > > + has been extended to non-<acronym>EFI</acronym> > > > > + systems.</para> > > >=20 > > > r282727 is moving the relocation code for the loader to a common plac= e. > > > It has nothing to do with making the kernel relocatable, but as a prep > > > for r282731. > > >=20 > >=20 > > Do you have a suggested rewording? I can't think of another way to word > > this, since 'Support for [...]' still seems relevant for the context. > >=20 >=20 > This isn't about the kernel at all. This makes it possible to share the > loader relocation code between arches, so that any flavor of loader(8) > can be self-relocatable. Then r282731 makes the arm ubldr flavor of > loader(8) relocatable. The benefit is that a board-specific setting of > UBLDR_LOADADDR is no longer needed at compile time. >=20 Ah, I see now. Thank you. I'll reword this. > Unrelated work around the same time (r283035) made loader aware of the > fact that arm kernels are relocatable and can be loaded on any 2MB > boundary in physical ram. >=20 Yeah, I didn't get to this yet, likely because of how I split up the svn logs for this last pass. The sys/arm, sys/cddl, and sys/dev logs are still in progress. Glen --rNtUoUA3Tn0/N1iC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVpZlGAAoJEAMUWKVHj+KTHZ4P/RE0KexnOnZ4j0UZiPBc28vF 3L33FFhsDpujUVFUlkRHJnTy23dJ5tL0IWkUTwW/dLABuM1gLpjNYwi9mV6eBSoq cMhG+kKqKRtXKM6i3dX5ACe49C4zSB9pQthb7b7FTjaJQYDknseXTPcfek8UA0J2 3CuYnclJ9L5Le2aQtP4DWGgJLqUWpunYQIKrkj+YP/zULjUDGwZXTkw61GY9fX2P Ln3LkTZZSSFOzWMfefZQTi1pEmezWZuHz6rYTparpJzU4+KASGQFz3fBpsc6yxdd CgptuvrYu43983fPFlNhD/GpeLhLJAPo+ZE26KjzZim16V/X8W1NA8bUV1SrOrHS Fe9EIOOubiSmer8Vn13MCLUbY4n2cbEBoMYXxv3DHaCt4cCTMgqN3ZcB/6bOHBjZ xWh+A92i66mkY1U0igNZj6FzRNYxCKC/Z6dI9wjrnWLsTw6Nem2QP+b2IpAMsAXl zOp/Pn7/kwhir/Rr4rLxJhUKrgtZLdqqknFY9d4ZpjNzqAcJ44Y5ndGfU/3Y0fFn Qq8FDLJC9sfjRM3S4d+Lkh/A32Z61u6sBHj/zqBi8QmsU/WlWTr4bkQv7y5xlTkh nblc0hNxoCroo+c0B9nrRcgcrpsufqFHKT/iiH9WwCg6htiWmyNgmBRHXlVUBMin Fpu9GjGKoykMD0Tl7UMm =Dk2Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rNtUoUA3Tn0/N1iC--
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