[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] RFC: True PIC on 83xx

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote on 2010/11/23 21:52:11:
>
> Dear Joakim Tjernlund,
>
> In message <1290538131-12383-1-git-send-email-Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se> you wrote:
> > Here goes my attempt to revive true PIC on ppc, starting with 83xx.
> > This uses a a new gcc option(which I have just impl.) to add
> > msingle-pic-base also save a lot of code:
>
> Is my inderstanding correct that this is a private, all new gcc
> extension?  Do you have plans to submit it upstream?
>
> I appreciate your work, and I, too, would like to be able to do what
> this patch series seems to acchieve, but I think we should not add
> this to mainline when neither mainline gcc nor any of the "common"
> tool chains (say, OE/Yocto/LF, Linaro, CodeSourcery, ...) supports it.

-msingle-pic-base already exist for ARM. I impl. it for PowerPC too.
I have submitted it upstream and I hope it will be accepted, it is ongoing
but slowly as there are very few ppc maintainers.

 Jocke