[U-Boot] [PATCH V3 1/2] [NEXT] arm: change relocation flag from -fPIC to -fPIE

Ben Gardiner bengardiner at nanometrics.ca
Tue Sep 28 15:38:58 CEST 2010


On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Albert Aribaud <albert.aribaud at free.fr> wrote:
> Replace GOT indirect addressing with more efficient pic-base
> relative addressing for initialized data (uninitialized data
> still use GOTi indirect addressing).  This also reduces code
> size by 0.4% compared to -fPIC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Albert Aribaud <albert.aribaud at free.fr>

Applies cleanly to 3df61957938586c512c17e72d83551d190400981 of u-boot/next.

Tested on da850evm -- u-boot prompt is obtained and bootm of linux
uImage is possible with the fix for bootparam address on the da850evm.

Tested-by: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner at nanometrics.ca>

Best Regards,
Ben Gardiner

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