[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 2/3] net: add phylib implementation

[Scott Wood]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:54:47AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 27 August 2009 01:11:32 Stefan Roese wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 August 2009 03:55:57 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > +int phy_init(void)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	/* Initialize the list */
> > > > +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&phy_drvs.list);
> > >
> > > does it really need to be dynamic ?  arent there static initializers so
> > > this can be done in .data ?
> >
> > Using static initializers fails on PPC because of the somewhat broken
> > relocation. So this dynamic implementation is the preferred version, at
> > least for PPC people.
> 
> so the ppc port cant use the .data section at all ?  that doesnt sound correct 
> to me.

We can't have initialized pointers in .data without manual runtime fixup. 
Only .text has relocation information.

Someone tried to get proper relocation working a while ago, but ran into
toolchain bugs.  Maybe current toolchains are better...

-Scott