[U-Boot] Pull request: u-boot-net.git master

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:42:21PM -0600, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Langer Thomas (LQDE RD ST PON SW)
> <thomas.langer at lantiq.com> wrote:
> > Hello Joe,
> >
> > These patches for static initialization of the struct eth_ops will break the drivers on any architecture which needs manual relocation!
> >
> > I've send a comment regarding this, please see here:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/146092/focus=147607
> 
> I missed that message before.  Thanks for keeping an eye out!
> 
> > The tests with QEMU are insufficient, as probably the memory locations before relocation were still available and used via the
> > uncorrected pointers.
> 
> I just ran into another issue on MIPS where the is the case... serial
> is busted (serial_initialize() isn't called, which manually
> relocates), but it doesn't appear as a crash because of the
> pre-relocation addresses still being valid.
> 
> > So please consider to revoke the pull request until an update with fixes for the "eth_ops" series is available.
> 
> Indeed.  Tom, please disregard this pull request.

Disregarded.

-- 
Tom
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