Hi Michal, On 3 February 2015 at 17:40, Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: > Hi Michal, > > On 3 February 2015 at 02:11, Michal Simek <michal.si...@xilinx.com> wrote: >> Hi Simon, >> >> On 02/03/2015 03:02 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 16:57:15 -0700 >>> Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Michal, >>>> >>>> On 2 February 2015 at 08:31, Michal Simek <michal.si...@xilinx.com> wrote: >>>>> Targets with CONFIG_NEEDS_MANUAL_RELOC do not use REL/RELA >>>>> relocation (mostly only GOT) where functions aray are not >>>>> updated. This patch is fixing function pointers for DM core >>>>> and serial-uclass to ensure that relocated functions are called. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.si...@xilinx.com> >>>>> --- >>>>> >>>>> drivers/core/root.c | 64 >>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>>> drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c | 16 +++++++++++ >>>>> 2 files changed, 80 insertions(+) >>>> >>>> How long will we have to carry this patch? It seems that if we add any >>>> new driver we will have to add more code like this? >>> >>> >>> >>> This patch is unfortunate. >>> Can we discontinue CONFIG_NEEDS_MANUAL_RELOC some day? >> >> This patch (or similar one) has to be alive when we have platform >> which requires CONFIG_NEEDS_MANUAL_RELOC for full u-boot. >> There is an option to move to REL/RELA but the question is if >> all platforms have it/support it. Unfortunately I think that >> it will be in the tree for a long time. >> >>> >>> If we use SPL, we do not have to relocate code, I think. >> >> SPL doesn't have relocation that's why this code is not used there. > > Maybe I asked this before, but when can we remove > CONFIG_NEEDS_MANUAL_RELOC? What platforms need it?
Sorry if you answered these questions but can you please resend if so as I missed it. Thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot