[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: Add option to disable code relocation

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Dirk Behme,

In message <4F30C794.50206 at de.bosch.com> you wrote:
>
> > Also, if SPL can determine total SDRAM, copy U-Boot to the final location
> > and perform the relocations, there is no need for relocation to be done by
> > U-Boot. As I understand it, SPL loads U-Boot into a fixed address and then
> > U-Boot copies itself to top-of-RAM. We can save one copy
> 
> Yes, exactly, saving this one copy was the the reason for me to start 
> this thread.

Is nobody _reading_ what I try to explain again and again and again?

If SPL was to determing the relocation address, it would also have to
read the environment, because there are a number of environment
variables which can cause (dynamically) the relocation address to
change.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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