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From: "Alexander Shiyan" <shc_work@mail.ru>
To: "Sascha Hauer" <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] ARM: Add relocatable binary support
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:10:02 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362427802.171419274@f40.mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362427389-2144-7-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de>

> For making the same binary executable on different SoCs which have
> different DRAM addresses we have to be independent of the compile
> time link address.
> 
> This patch adds relocatable binary support for the ARM architecture.
> With this two new functions are available. relocate_to_current_adr
> will fixup the binary to continue executing from the current position.
> relocate_to_adr will copy the binary to a given address, fixup the
> binary and continue executing from there.
> 
> For the PBL and the real image relocatable support can be enabled
> independently. This is done to (hopefully) better cope with setups
> where the PBL runs from SRAM or ROM and the real binary does not.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
...

Hello.

I just suggest put this new stuff under EXPERIMENTAL condition.
Thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-04 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-04 20:03 [PATCH] " Sascha Hauer
2013-03-04 20:03 ` [PATCH 1/6] ARM: make cpu architecture detection available as static inline function Sascha Hauer
2013-03-04 20:46   ` Alexander Aring
2013-03-05 10:34     ` Sascha Hauer
2013-03-04 20:03 ` [PATCH 2/6] ARM: add early mmu cache flush function and use it in setup_c Sascha Hauer
2013-03-04 20:03 ` [PATCH 3/6] ARM: provide accessor functions for linker variables Sascha Hauer
2013-03-04 20:03 ` [PATCH 4/6] ARM boards: Use accessor functions to access " Sascha Hauer
2013-03-04 20:03 ` [PATCH 5/6] ARN: fixup vector addresses for relocatable binaries Sascha Hauer
2013-03-04 20:03 ` [PATCH 6/6] ARM: Add relocatable binary support Sascha Hauer
2013-03-04 20:10   ` Alexander Shiyan [this message]
2013-03-04 20:19     ` Sascha Hauer
2013-03-05  4:32       ` Re[2]: " Alexander Shiyan
2013-03-05  7:25         ` Sascha Hauer
2013-03-04 20:53   ` Alexander Aring
2013-03-05 10:46     ` Sascha Hauer

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