On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Jiaxun Yang wrote: > > > diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > > > b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index a5f00ec73ea6..5226cd8e4bee > > > 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > > > +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S > > > @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ SECTIONS > > > /* . = 0xa800000000300000; */ > > > . = 0xffffffff80300000; > > > #endif > > > - . = VMLINUX_LOAD_ADDRESS; > > > + . = VMLINUX_LINK_ADDRESS; > > > > The CONFIG_BOOT_ELF64 cruft right above it looks interesting to me, > > never have ever been used. We have had the current arrangement since: > > It confused me either. > It's only used by SGI so probably it's time to rename it as > BOOT_SEG_ELF64.
Well, as seen above the first assignment is immediately overridden by the second and the rest of the conditional are comments. So as I say it's not used ever, not even any SGI configuration, and from Git history it looks like it has never been. Maciej
