[PATCH 1/1] powerpc: Drop version_string placement optimization

[Tom Rini]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 03:56:48PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:

> As explained by Wolfgang, historically PowerPC would do a number of
> things to hand-optimize placement of the binary on NOR flash in order to
> maximize utilization of very scarce resources.  These days, we simply
> aren't optimizing our binary layout for NOR flash placement and it's
> quite likely this wasn't working as intended.  Furthermore, this level
> of optimization makes it difficult to have version_string be a global,
> instead of a weak and overridden value, and so make more progress on
> reproducible builds, which is a current concern.
> 
> Move to having PowerPC no longer store version_string in the early part
> of text so that it might be part of the first page of NOR and instead
> use the same declaration everyone else does.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/96716.1629798400@gemini.denx.de/
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>

Applied to u-boot/next, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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