[U-Boot] [PATCH] p2371-2180: Build position independent binary

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Mon Mar 18 18:31:32 UTC 2019


On 3/8/19 1:10 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> From: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
> 
> In order to support chainloading of U-Boot by an earlier bootloader,
> make sure the binary is position independent, so that the earlier boot-
> loader can relocate it if necessary.

Why not enable this for all 64-bit Tegra? They're all booted the exact 
same way at least with recent L4T builds.

Also, U-Boot is typically linked to the address that cboot loads it to, 
and cboot typically always loads to precisely that address. I'm not sure 
why this patch is required.

That said, it don't think it harms anything, so I'm fine with it being 
applied.


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