[U-Boot] new uboot with relocation change cannot boot when download the bin file to different address than TEXT_BASE

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Lei Wen,

In message <AANLkTi==rkiYsGNFYiy2nO_w4uSw=Da8stZjcHt14Q9J at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> But it let the uboot lose a good feature that let it boot itself to
> debug a new feature.

This has never been supported, and never been working reliably, not
across acrchitectures, and not on all ARM systems.

> In original scheme, the relocate operation is done before calling the
> init_sequence,
> so the problem here was gone.

No. Before, There was no relocation done at all, because U-Boot was
linked to a fixed RAM address, and was simply copied there.

You ware just lucky when you were able to start U-Boot from an already
running system.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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