[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:
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> ---------------------------
> +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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