[U-Boot] ARM relocation, question to Heiko

Albert ARIBAUD albert.aribaud at free.fr
Sat Oct 2 11:29:34 CEST 2010


Le 02/10/2010 11:08, Heiko Schocher a écrit :

>>> Short answer - the relocation process does not handle pointers inside
>>> data structures.
>>>
>>> And yes, this means the content arrays of pointers such as init_sequence
>>> is not relocated. Been there, done that, can give you one of the
>
> The init_sequence should not called anymore after relocation, as it is
> the init_sequence ... or?

... or you may want to have an u-boot binary which is truly 
position-independent. I'd like to have that, but the init_sequence table 
issue makes it difficult.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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