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1From: Mark Miller <mark@mirell.org>
2
3This exposes the CONFIG_BOOT_RAW symbol in Kconfig. This is needed on
4certain Broadcom chipsets running CFE in order to load the kernel.
5
6Signed-off-by: Mark Miller <mark@mirell.org>
7Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
8---
9--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
10+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
11@@ -877,9 +877,6 @@ config ARC
12 config ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
13     bool
14 
15-config BOOT_RAW
16- bool
17-
18 config CEVT_BCM1480
19     bool
20 
21@@ -2330,6 +2327,18 @@ config USE_OF
22     help
23       Include support for flattened device tree machine descriptions.
24 
25+config BOOT_RAW
26+ bool "Enable the kernel to be executed from the load address"
27+ default n
28+ help
29+ Allow the kernel to be executed from the load address for
30+ bootloaders which cannot read the ELF format. This places
31+ a jump to start_kernel at the load address.
32+
33+ If unsure, say N.
34+
35+
36+
37 endmenu
38 
39 config LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
40

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