Hi rhabarber1848, >> Grepping through my source, I cannot find such a configuration - do you >> plan to submit this support here sometime? > > the code was written by other people and is maintained out-of-uboot-tree > in our public CVS.
So why not move mainline? Usually it's pretty fun to get other peoples code into mainline *lol* > After unpacking U-Boot 2009.08 these files are copied into the source > tree: http://cvs.tuxbox.org/tuxbox/boot/u-boot-tuxbox/ Ah uh, I would even offer some help in the process (like adding a branch in the u-boot-testing repository), but this instruction is somewhat unspecific, i.e. I see three boards being supported. If we want to get the support mainline, we should start with only one of them - including only the neccessary changes, i.e. cpu/ppc4xx/serial_sicc.c is very likely not relevant for the dbox :) > Then this patch is applied > http://cvs.tuxbox.org/tuxbox/cdk/Patches/u-boot-2009.08.diff?view=markup > > This is the board config used: > http://cvs.tuxbox.org/tuxbox/cdk/config/u-boot.dbox2.h.m4?view=markup > > I do not know if the code meets U-Boot coding standards, but it works ;) > Adding the code to the U-Boot tree makes sense but I think I do not have > the needed skills to support it in the future. You will learn the skills while doing it - no problem. >> Apart from that, I'd strongly start looking for implications of the >> recent rewrite of the relocation strategy to code not in mainline. > > Ah, this is the message I was waiting for. After 2009.08 I did not follow > the coding process due to lack of time so I am sure I missed something. > Do you mean "[TESTING PATCH] ppc: Relocation test patch" from Sep 12th? > Btw, I am using gcc-3.4.6. This is a rather long story, but it starts with this commit: commit 858290178f222d998b6425d85cf06822467918f3 Author: Peter Tyser <pty...@xes-inc.com> Date: Mon Sep 21 11:20:25 2009 -0500 ppc: Enable full relocation to RAM The following changes allow U-Boot to fully relocate from flash to RAM: - Remove linker scripts' .fixup sections from the .text section - Add -mrelocatable to PLATFORM_RELFLAGS for all boards - Define CONFIG_RELOC_FIXUP_WORKS for all boards Previously, U-Boot would partially relocate, but statically initialized pointers needed to be manually relocated. Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <pty...@xes-inc.com> On top of this many fixes have been provided already. Just grep for "relocat" in "git log". Cheers Detlev -- These days, even the most pure and abstract mathematics is in danger to be applied. -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-40 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: d...@denx.de _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
