[U-Boot] [PATCH] PowerPC: Move -fPIC flag to common place

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Joakim Tjernlund,

In message <OF484EFF4D.45D9734B-ONC1257870.002E25B2-C1257870.002F0BE0 at transmode.se> you wrote:
>
> > It seems this change increases the code size somehow - which I would
> > not expect from your comment above.  Please have a look.
> 
> Very strange, I had a quick look(that is all I can do ATM). It appers
> that 8xx is the only ppc arch which doesn't have its own u-boot.lds under
> arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xx, is that intentional? Is it only 8xx that has this
> problem?

I did not look closer, but it appears that these boards are all boards
that use an embedded environment, and thus their own, usually manually
tuned linker script.

> My guess would be that 8xx missed out on an earlier patch
> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=337f5f50f539cc1ea1e0533c096e237228f12cae

Or, more correctly, that this patch failed to patch these boards.

Can you please provide a fix?  I'd like to get rid of this build error
ASAP.  We could, of course, simply revert these commits.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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