[U-Boot] [PATCH] relocation: Do not relocate NULL pointers.

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Oct 3 14:13:57 CEST 2009


Dear Joakim Tjernlund,

In message <OF3474ED49.C18DA041-ONC1257644.0033ADEB-C1257644.0034147E at transmode.se> you wrote:
> 
> > It seems discussion stopped here. Is it correct forme to assume that
> > there is no patch available yet that is considered ripe to be added
> > (to the "reloc" branch) ?
> 
> That is correct. Some boards(85xx) seem to have bss_start at 0 sometimes
> and that won't play nice with this patch. Peter was looking into this but
> seems like he isn't finished yet.
> 
> Also, I have been looking at moving this relocation to C-code and it isn't
> quite ready yet. What is left is to modify all ppc boards to use this new C-code

So how should we proceed? My plan was to merge the "reloc" branch by
the end of next week. Is this still realistic?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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