[U-Boot] FPGA relocation/C environment

Wolfgang Wegner wolfgang at leila.ping.de
Fri Oct 30 14:11:12 CET 2009


Hi,

thank you all for all the comments so far.

It seems I have at least 2 problems:
- my gcc (m68k-elf-gcc (Sourcery G++ Lite 4.3-208) 4.3.3) does not
  produce correctly relocatable code; no matter if I give -fPIC or
  not (-mrelocatable is not accepted at all), I do not get any
  entries in .got2 or .fixup, only .got
  However, there still may be anything wrong in my conclusion,
  because I can use this compiler to compile uClinux-dist-20071107
  and get working applications (which, as far as I understand, have
  to be relocated at runtime, too, but I do not know if any of these
  use such features as statically initialized function pointers that
  I have in the U-Boot fpga code...).
- the current coldfire startup code (at least for MCF532x/MCF537x)
  would not handle these sections even if they existed - however,
  this seems to be rather easily (i.e. maybe even I could do it)
  fixed, looking at the ppc examples.

I will first live with the problem (relocating the fpga struct pointers
in my own board code, where it is filled anyways - for coldfire,
gd->reloc_off is still present) and see if I can get hold of a better
gcc version.
I tried gcc-4.4.1, but was unable to compile one of U-Boot or uClinux,
so switched back to this one which I found to compile (old and current)
U-Boot, old uClinux _and_ support mcf5445x, which I am designing in
now...

Thank you and sorry for my stupid questions.

Regards,
Wolfgang



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