[U-Boot] Problem with ll_entry_* before relocation

[Albert ARIBAUD]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 12:05:02 +0100, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:

> Hi Marek,
> 
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2013 10:00:55 +0100, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Dear Heiko Schocher,
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I am currently trying to get rid of some externs in the new i2c
> > > multibus approach, specially this externs:
> > > 
> > > http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-i2c.git;a=blob;f=drivers/i2c/i2c_core.c
> > > ;h=2a559c9d81a945f219eab49d11e70c0ac4a6d6a4;hb=83ffd31c590dd5aedfef0c195b1f
> > > fc406e6d0e37#l31
> > > 
> > > I tried to use the ll_entry_* defines see:
> > > include/linker_lists.h
> > > so the compiler will collect all i2c adapter(s), and no
> > > need to declare in the config file a list of used adapters.
> > > This approach works fine for using i2c after relocation, but
> > > did not work before, which is a must have for i2c ...
> > > Therefore I describe (Sorry, for the long EMail) here, whats
> > > I see on an arm926ejs based board, using eldk 5.2 with
> > 
> > Albert has a patch for that, CCed.
> 
> II will send out the patch this afternoon; before 14:00 GMT+1 if I'm
> lucky, around 17:00 GMT+1 if not.

Rebased my patch on current u-boot/master required some non-trivial
code changes, so I am currently running regression on ARM, and will run
it also at least on PPC; then I'll submit the patch, most certainly
near the end of the afternoon. Currently it is a one-patch series as I
don't think I can actually split it much without badly preventing
bisection, but let's just start with that and go forward with testing
and reviewing.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.