[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/4] arm64: rela relocation

[FengHua]

> arm64: rela relocation
> 
> This lets us remove the manual relocation stuff from the arm64 patchset
> (the symbol itself is removed by this patchset, but not all the new
> manual relocations added by the arm64 patchset).
> 
> I'm not terribly happy with the way relocate-rela is now, versus something
> cleaner that operates on the ELF file, but it's good enough for now and
> waiting longer to get rid of the manual relocations would be worse.
> 
> This patchset is based on David's arm64 patchset v13.  David, the first
> two patches should be applied before your arm64 patches.  Maybe the
> fourth as well (except for the removal of the arm64 ifdef you added,
> which would then need to be squashed with your patch).  The third patch
> should be squashed with your patches (plus you should remove the manual
> relocs).
> 
> Scott Wood (4):
>   arm64: Add tool to statically apply RELA relocations
>   arm64: Turn u-boot.bin back into an ELF file after relocate-rela
>   arm64: Non-manual relocation
>   arm64: Make checkarmreloc accept arm64 relocations
> 
>  Makefile                          |  39 ++++++--
>  arch/arm/config.mk                |   4 -
>  arch/arm/cpu/armv8/config.mk      |   1 -
>  arch/arm/cpu/armv8/u-boot.lds     |  32 +++++--
>  arch/arm/include/asm/config.h     |   5 --
>  arch/arm/lib/crt0_64.S            |   7 +-
>  arch/arm/lib/relocate_64.S        |  41 ++++-----
>  include/configs/vexpress_aemv8a.h |   3 +
>  tools/Makefile                    |   6 ++
>  tools/relocate-rela.c             | 185 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  10 files changed, 276 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/relocate-rela.c
> 
Great, some fixups related with relocation could be removed.
I will modify arm64 patchset according this.

David