[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] arm: provide a CONFIG flag for disabling relocation

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Aneesh V,

In message <1301058732-30898-1-git-send-email-aneesh at ti.com> you wrote:
> Relocation may not be needed and desirable in many cases:
>  * For many boards the amount of SDRAM is fixed.
>    So relocation is not needed.

This is plain wrong.  This has been explained a couple of times
before.  Please read the archives.

>  * Relocation adds un-necessary additional overhead when
>    it's not needed. This delay is singificant on slower
>    platforms such as FPGA

Do you have numbers?  How much delay do you see caused by the
relocation of U-Boot?

>  * Many boards have ample memory. So reserving enough memory
>    for Linux in the first half is not a challenge even without
>    relocation

You appear not to understand what relocation is needed for.


I tend to reject your patch, unless you can come up with really
convincing arguments. Also, your patch should then work for all
boards - not only ARM, but also PowerPC (one of the arguments for
relocation was that we want to unify the code).


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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