[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] [NEXT] arm926ejs: reduce code size with -msingle-pic-base

Heiko Schocher hs at denx.de
Fri Sep 24 07:11:56 CEST 2010


Hello Albert,

Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Le 23/09/2010 12:08, Heiko Schocher a écrit :
> 
>> Hmm.. I don;t know the other boards ... so, I decided for
>> the relocation patches not to fix all arm boards, instead
>> inroduce the CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC, and board
>> maintainers (or others who have time for it) can adapt
>> the boards to this new code. So we always have a chance
>> to keep track which boards are converted *and* working
>> and which boards are not working ... so, I could not say,
>> if it is a good idea to fix other boards, you could not
>> test (I know, usually we do this fixes, but the relocation
>> code is such a deep change, I prefer to add only real
>> tested patches ...)
> 
> Understood. If only to be consistent with your patches, I will not fix
> any other board than the ones I can test directly.
> 
> This leads me to another question: since I cannot test the tx25, I think

I test it ;-)

> I should take from your fix only the parts that modify my own patch set,
> and leave out the parts for tx25, which you would post above my patches.
> Is this ok?

I prefer to have this change in one patch, because if we do it so, we
don;t break "git bisect" functionallity.

bye,
Heiko
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