[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] [x86] Don't relocate symbols which point to things that aren't relocated

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Nov 8 14:46:38 CET 2011


On Tuesday 08 November 2011 02:08:42 Gabe Black wrote:
> This change adds an upper bound for symbols which are fixed up after u-boot
> is relocated into RAM. This way portions that are left at their original
> location can be referred to without having to manually fix up any pointers.

i'm not familiar with the u-boot relocation handling on x86, but if a symbol 
shouldn't be relocated, then why does it have an elf reloc ?  shouldn't it be 
an absolute symbol ?
-mike
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