Hello Wolfgang, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Reinhard Meyer, > > In message <4ca79896.2010...@emk-elektronik.de> you wrote: >> I agree here. _If_ relocation, it should work without hand-adding >> fixup stuff to all functions using initialized data with pointers. >> Even Wolfgang forgot to fixup his 2nd level command table in >> cmd_nvedit.c ;) > > I didn't forget it - at least not in the sensse that I think this is > something that needs to be done. > > This works fine on PPC with relocation, and we should make it work > the same on other arches.
If we find a way for this on ARM, Ack! >> And, for space concerns in flash, relocation should always be an >> option on a board by board basis... > > NAK. > >> And as an idea, if position independent code is used, only pointers >> in initialized data need adjustment. Cannot the linker emit a table >> of addresses that need fixing? > > It does. That's the GOT. So I thought too, and I made a fixup in relocate_code() for the GOT entries. But this don;t work with for example the commandtables. bye, Heiko -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
