[U-Boot] [RFC] [PATCH] arm: arm926ejs: use ELF relocations

[J. William Campbell]

  On 10/4/2010 10:30 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
>
> In message<4CAA50AA.3000608 at free.fr>  you wrote:
>> Remember: this patch only applies to boards which boot from NOR FLASH!
>> You can test it on other types of boards (NAND-based, etc) for
>> regression testing, but nothing more.
> Assuming the NAND loder does not load U-Boot to it's final location
> at the upper end of RAM, but - say - somewhere in lower memory, the
> standard relocation preocess will be running, so I think there should
> be no real difference between (such) NAND booting systems and NOR
> booting ones - or am I missing something?
FWIW I think you are right. If u-boot is linked for the address where 
the NAND loader put it, everything should work fine. It can
size memory, move a copy of u-boot to the top of memory, and branch to 
the entry point that continues initialization.

Bill Campbell
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>