[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 3/7] reboard: Add generic relocation feature

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Nov 30 00:41:10 CET 2011


Hi Mike,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2011 17:15:18 Simon Glass wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> > On Monday 21 November 2011 18:57:56 Simon Glass wrote:
>> >> --- /dev/null
>> >> +++ b/board/Makefile
>> >>
>> >> +ifndef CONFIG_SYS_LEGACY_BOARD
>> >> +COBJS        += reloc.o
>> >> +endif
>> >
>> > i don't think relocation should be tied "legacy board".  not all arches
>> > do relocation at all, which means they might never opt in to this
>> > aspect.
>>
>> If they don't do reloc then when we move them over we should add a
>> CONFIG for this I think. But would prefer to wait until we have an
>> arch moving over that requires no relocation, before addressing this.
>
> Blackfin does no relocation, so i'd be annoyed to have to carry a define like
> "LEGACY_BOARD" forever ;)
> -mike
>

Would you be happier with CONFIG_ARCH_NO_RELOCATION?

Regards,
Simon


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