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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] ARM: Add relocatable binary support
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 21:19:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130304201929.GI1906@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362427802.171419274@f40.mail.ru>

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 12:10:02AM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > 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.

I'm unsure this makes sense. In the kernel currently 388 options depend
on EXPERIMENTAL and 433 out of 438 defconfigs have EXPERIMENTAL enabled.
This recently led to the discussion whether this option should be
removed from the Kernel.

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-04 20:19 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
2013-03-04 20:19     ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
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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