[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/26] arm: add full relocation / cache support

Heiko Schocher hs at denx.de
Thu Aug 12 07:34:13 CEST 2010


Hello Wolfgang,

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Heiko Schocher,
> 
> a few comments...
> 
> In message <4C62E8C3.8050006 at denx.de> you wrote:
>> This patch series add full relocation and cache support for arm
>> based boards. I test this for arm1136, arm_cortexa8 and arm926ejs
>> based boards.
>>
>> Relocation support:
>>
>> !! This change is not compatible to old code !!
> 
> To make it clear: only the relocation part will break all ports that
> have not been adapted yet. One could try and use only the cache
> support patches, and skip the reloc stuff for now.

Yep, thats right. Or he/she can set "CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC"

>> If you want to compile in old style, you can set
>>
>> CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC
>>
>> but this possibility will be removed soon, so please
>> adapt your board(s)
> 
> The plan is as follows:
> 
> I will pull this stuff into the "next" branch about one week after I
> released "rc1". I intend to keep this "CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC"
> feature for a full release cycle. Early in the next branch for the
> following release it will be removed. Any boards that are not yet
> converted then will break. If the breakage does not get fixed by
> board maintainers or interested users, we will remove these obviously
> unmaintained boards, then.

Ok. Thanks for the clarification.

bye
Heiko
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