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Date:   Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:45:44 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
To:     Jinyang He <hejinyang@loongson.cn>
Cc:     Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
        linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] MIPS: KASLR: Make relocation_address can be
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:29:14AM +0800, Jinyang He wrote:
> When CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE is not set, determine_relocation_address()
> always returns a constant. It is not friendly to users if the address
> cannot be used. Make it can be configured at Kconfig.

and how do I get the information which address I need to enter ?
This looks more like platforms need to supply a working address and
not the user configuring the kernel...

Thomas.

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