[U-Boot] [PATCH] CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC: document feature removal

Wolfgang Wegner wolfgang at leila.ping.de
Wed Sep 29 11:39:01 CEST 2010


Hi,

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:29:32AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
[...]
>  ---------------------------
> +What:	CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC option
> +When:	After Release 2010.03

should this be 2011.03, or did I misunderstand anything?

> +
> +Why:	The implementation of U-Boot for the ARM architecture has
> +	been reworked to support relocation. This allows to
> +	efficiently use the same U-Bot binary image on systems with
> +	different RAM sizes, and brings the implementation much more
> +	in line with the code used for example on Power Architecture
> +	systems (eventually allowing to merge into common code). This
> +	seems especailly interesting now that ARM is getting Device
> +	Tree support as well.
> +
> +	All ARM boards need to be adapted to this new code, which
> +	requires testing on the actual hardware, so this is a task
> +	for the respective board maintainers or other users.
> +
> +	Please see the commit message of commit f1d2b31 for details:
> +
> +	http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=f1d2b31
> +
> +	Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC will be removed
> +	after release v2010.03; all boards that have not been

here, too, and also in your 2010.09 release note

Regards,
Wolfgang



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