[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Fixup relocation patch.]

[Joakim Tjernlund]

> From: Txema Lopez [mailto:tlopez at aotek.es] 
> Sent: 14 February 2007 09:01
> To: Joakim Tjernlund
> Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Fixup relocation patch.]
> 
> Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> >I wonder, how far off is a fully relocatable u-boot? That 
> is, burn it anywhere
> >in flash and start it from there?
> >
> > Jocke
> >
> >  
> >
> Hi Jocke,
> The patch was done precisely for it. You can copy a U-Boot 
> image from an 
> address in flash to another and calculate the new pointers in 
> the GOT an 
> FIXUP sections before do the copy.
> But you need another change in U-Boot to turn it fully relocatable. 
> U-Boot is hardly joined with the link address TEXT_BASE. You must 
> replace it for a label in U-Boot and change the lines in the 
> U-Boot code 
> where there is a direct or indirect reference (as 
> CFG_MONITOR_BASE) to 
> TEXT_BASE.
> 
> Best regards,
> Txema

Hi Txema

Can you give an example on how to change these references to
TEXT_BASE/CFG_MONITOR_BASE?

 Regards
         Jocke