[U-Boot] RFC: Aligning arch initialisation sequences

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Reinhard Meyer,

In message <4CDF137E.2000902 at emk-elektronik.de> you wrote:
>
> > This has but on tiny shortcoming: we use GD to pass data around, for
> > example to pass clock frequencies determind before relocation to the
> > code running after relocation - which means that GD must be of a
> > statically allocated storage class.
> >
> > Your stack variable above will go out of scope as soon as we leave the
> > board_early_init() function...
> 
> Correct, that's why its even now copied over to storage in SDRAM...
> (at least on ARM:
> 	debug ("relocation Offset is: %08lx\n", gd->reloc_off);
> 	memcpy (id, (void *)gd, sizeof (gd_t));
> 
> 	relocate_code (addr_sp, id, addr);
> )

At this time board_early_init_f() has terminated long ago, i. e. the
data is not available any more.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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