[U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH 00/21] [x86] 'Comming of Age'

[Graeme Russ]

Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> Graeme Russ <graeme.russ at gmail.com> wrote on 2010/03/27 12:54:03:
>> Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>>> I did a few months ago for MPC83xx and sent it to the list. There was some
>>> discussion but in the end it wasn't applied because it was too invasive.
>>> PPC is especially bad as it needs to relocate string literals too.
>>>
>> To implement full relocation, I simply need to add an additional parameter
>> to this function which provides the 'link versus load' offset which will
>> get applied to the 'load versus run' offset calculation
> 
> Are we talking about the same thing? when you say "does not
> need to be loaded at TEXT_BASE" you need something like my LINK_OFF patch,
> otherwise I don't see how you can boot out of flash otherwise.
> 

I realise now that we are not talking about the same thing. The x86 port
always relocates into (and runs from) RAM. Only a very small stub is run
from flash (SDRAM setup and sizing, copy to RAM, process relocation entries
etc). This stub can be made fully relocatable while running from Flash
(with a few tricks)

By adjusting all position dependent code after copying into RAM, LINK_OFF
is no longer needed

Graeme