[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] dm: Add support for all targets which requires MANUAL_RELOC

[Simon Glass]

Hi Michal,

On 3 February 2015 at 02:11, Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On 02/03/2015 03:02 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 16:57:15 -0700
>> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Michal,
>>>
>>> On 2 February 2015 at 08:31, Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com> wrote:
>>>> Targets with CONFIG_NEEDS_MANUAL_RELOC do not use REL/RELA
>>>> relocation (mostly only GOT) where functions aray are not
>>>> updated. This patch is fixing function pointers for DM core
>>>> and serial-uclass to ensure that relocated functions are called.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>>  drivers/core/root.c            | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  drivers/serial/serial-uclass.c | 16 +++++++++++
>>>>  2 files changed, 80 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> How long will we have to carry this patch? It seems that if we add any
>>> new driver we will have to add more code like this?
>>
>>
>>
>> This patch is unfortunate.
>> Can we discontinue CONFIG_NEEDS_MANUAL_RELOC some day?
>
> This patch (or similar one) has to be alive when we have platform
> which requires CONFIG_NEEDS_MANUAL_RELOC for full u-boot.
> There is an option to move to REL/RELA but the question is if
> all platforms have it/support it. Unfortunately I think that
> it will be in the tree for a long time.
>
>>
>> If we use SPL, we do not have to relocate code, I think.
>
> SPL doesn't have relocation that's why this code is not used there.

Maybe I asked this before, but when can we remove
CONFIG_NEEDS_MANUAL_RELOC? What platforms need it?

Regards,
Simon