Hi, Alessandro Amici writes:
> Severity: important [...] > nice black magic trick: Well, I'm not sure if a bit of editing the kernel binary qualifies as "major effect on the usability" or black magic, but anyway. As long as you don't make it RC. > - with an hexeditor look for the values '00 0c 00 00' and '00 00 40 00' You mean '00 c0 00 00'. Both values are coming into the compressed kernel from the note file, which is created by mknote, which is built from arch/ppc/boot/utils/mknote.c, which is shipped with the upstream kernel source and has these values hardcoded. > in the first few bytes of the vmlinuz.initrd file and change both them of > them to 'ff ff ff ff'. We could add a patch that hardcodes these values instead, meaning real-base and load-base will be unspecified in the kernel, just like all the other OF variables. This affects CHRP only, since it is the only subarch that uses the note in the first place, so it would be great to hear people who actually have the hardware... > leighbb knows more than me ... like Leigh and Sven. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
