[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 03/17] powerpc: remove .fixup test

[Peter Tyser]

Hi Scott,

On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 19:01 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> This was introduced by commit 244615197469dd6fe75ae082f38424b97c79aeaf, but it
> fails in a minimal SPL build where the only thing in arch/powerpc/lib is
> cache.c, which apparently doesn't generate any fixup records.
> 
> If this check is really still needed, it should be moved somewhere more
> appropriate, but given that it's been three years and no other
> architecture does a test like this, I think we can remove it.  It would
> have been nice if the original commit said how old the problematic
> toolchains were.

There was a discussion about it a long while back that has some version
information:
http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg21415.html

Based on my testing I only could reproduce the issue with 3.x versions,
which are 7+ years old.

Best,
Peter