[U-Boot] Please pull ARC changes

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 01:38:48PM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Fri, 2018-03-23 at 09:33 -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 01:23:53PM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Tom,
> > > 
> > > This is the first batch of ARC changes for the next release.
> > > 
> > > Here we:
> > >  1. Significantly rework cache-related functionality.
> > >     In particular that fixes coherency problems in some corner-cases,
> > >     allows us to enable and disable caches in run-time and still
> > >     have properly running system, finally support execution from
> > >     real flash (before we used to run from DDR from the very beginning).
> > > 
> > >  2. Remove string routines implemented in assembly.
> > >     That allows us to build and run U-Boot on wide range og ARC cores
> > >     with different configurations. I.e. whatever tuning is used on GCC's
> > >     command-line we'll get code for desired flavor of ARC.
> > >     Otherwise for each and every corner-case we would need to add ifdefs
> > >     in assembly code to accommodate missing instructions etc.
> > > 
> > >  3. Get use of GCC's garbage collector which helps to slim-down resulting image
> > >     quite a bit.
> > > 
> > >  4. Also now we may disable U-Boot self-relocation for ARC if needed either
> > >     by platform or for debugging purposes.
> > 
> > FYI, all of the above would be really good to put into a signed tag,
> > next time :)
> 
> Sure will do!
> Do you want me to do it now as well?

I just copy/pasted it into my merge message.  Thanks tho.

-- 
Tom
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