[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] Make sure 85xx bss doesn't start at 0x0
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Oct 7 14:19:20 CEST 2009
Dear Peter,
In message <1254916635.20662.22.camel at ptyser-laptop> you wrote:
>
> > My vote is for the first, because otherwise we will run into
> > situations again and again where users and/or the linker get confused
> > about overlapping sections and/or sections wrapping around the
> > physical end of address space.
>
> Are you proposing adding this new bss fixup code to this release, or
> rolling it into the next release along with Jocke's addition of
> relocation code written in C-code? Logically it'd be much easier to add
> this new bss fixup logic to Jocke's 1 C-code function instead of 15
> assembly files, but then we'd have to have a temporary 85xx workaround
> just for this release (which is fine by me).
I can live with a temporary workaround, too. Given that we're already
in the middle of the "stabilization" period I prefer to delay this
bigger change until next release.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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