[U-Boot] [PATCH RFC 0/3] ARM Relocation Config Cleanup

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Oct 28 23:22:45 CEST 2010


Dear Reinhard Meyer,

In message <4CC9E2A7.3080506 at emk-elektronik.de> you wrote:
>
> > Wolfgang Denk (3):
> >        Replace CONFIG_RELOC_FIXUP_WORKS by CONFIG_BROKEN_RELOC_FIXUP
> 
> Seems a slight misnomer to me, and a bit hides what it really does. What about
> CONFIG_NEEDS_DATA_RELOC_FIXUP ?

I'm open for suggestions...

> Maybe for a future patch series:
> 
> Move all not ARM variant/not SoC specific parts (setting up stack, calling C
> functions, relocation and relocation fixup) to a common file
> (arch/arm/lib/generic_start.S), basically leaving only specific parts in the
> various arch/arm/cpu/*/start.S files. This would highly ease maintenance.

Agreed. But that needs to be done by someone who has a clue about
ARM; I'm just an old patch-monkey when it comes to that.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

-- 
DENX Software Engineering GmbH,     MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de
The price of curiosity is a terminal experience.
                         - Terry Pratchett, _The Dark Side of the Sun_


More information about the U-Boot mailing list