[U-Boot] [PATCH] arc: Introduce a possibility to not relocate U-boot
Alexey Brodkin
Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Tue Feb 20 17:54:21 UTC 2018
Hi Simon, Tom,
On Sun, 2018-02-04 at 06:40 -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> On 25 January 2018 at 11:22, Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com> wrote:
> > From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
> >
> > Disabling relocation might be useful on ARC for 2 reasons:
> > a) For advanced debugging with Synopsys proprietary MetaWare debugger
> > which is capable of accessing much more specific hardware resources
> > compared to gdb. For example it may show contents of L1 and L2 caches,
> > internal states of some hardware blocks etc.
> >
> > But on the downside MetaWare debugger still cannot work with PIE.
> > Even though that limitation could be work-arounded with change of ELF's
> > header and stripping down all debug info but with it we won't have
> > debug info for source-level debugging which is quite inconvenient.
> >
> > b) Some platforms which might benefit from usage of U-Boot basically
> > don't have enough RAM to accommodate relocation of U-Boot so we
> > keep code in flash and use as much of RAM as possible for more
> > interesting things.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> > Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> > Cc: Heiko Schocher <hs at denx.de>
> > Cc: York Sun <york.sun at nxp.com>
> > Cc: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> > ---
> > arch/arc/lib/relocate.c | 6 ++++++
> > arch/arc/lib/start.S | 8 +++++++-
> > common/board_f.c | 3 ++-
> > 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
Is it OK if I pull this into my "next" tree?
I'm asking because common/board_f.c is affected even though
that's just an addition of CONFIG_ARC in one #ifdef.
-Alexey
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