svn commit: r285563 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes

[Glen Barber]

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="282727">Support for booting relocatable kernels
> > > > +	has been extended to non-<acronym>EFI</acronym>
> > > > +	systems.</para>
> > > 
> > > r282727 is moving the relocation code for the loader to a common place.
> > > It has nothing to do with making the kernel relocatable, but as a prep
> > > for r282731.
> > > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 

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.
> 

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

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