[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/13] ppc: Fix relocation

[Peter Tyser]

On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 11:30 -0700, Swarthout Edward L-SWARTHOU wrote:
> From: Edward
> > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:05 AM
> > To: Wolfgang Denk; Peter Tyser
> > 
> > With -m relocatable, x86emu crashes because the op codes 
> > tables are forced to GOT2 section:
> > 
> > Video: ATI Radeon video card (1002, 5b60) found @(6:0:0)
> > videoboot: Booting PCI video card bus 6, function 0, dev 0
> > NIP: 8FFA8120 LR: 3FFB40F8 REGS: 3fe6dbd0 TRAP: 0700 DAR: 0
> > MSR: 00021200 EE: 0 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 00
> > 
> > GPR00: 8FFA8120 3FE6DCC0 3FE6DF68 0000009A 00000003 00000000
> > GPR08: 00004000 3FE75800 3F000000 3FE6DCC0 84000024 81C5D766
> > GPR16: 3FFF92E8 3FFCB384 3FE6DDA8 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > GPR24: 3FFDA09C 3FFE0544 3FFF9A6C 3FFF9A6C 3FE6DD24 3FFF9A6C
> > ** Illegal Instruction **
> > 
> > This patch fixes it:
> > 
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/48103
> >  
> 
> I still get this crash with latest head 
> (u-boot 2009.08-00338-gcd77dd1).

Thanks Ed,
To clarify, you're saying that the patch linked above just needs to be
applied, right?  Was there a reason the patch wasn't applied back in
2008?

The change looks good to me for what its worth.  Wolfgang or Kumar,
could one of you pick it up?

Best,
Peter