From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Likely Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:43:31 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme In-Reply-To: References: <20080724031826.ECD9B248B9@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:45 AM, vb wrote: > Wolfgang, thank you for your reply, let me try to explain myself a bit clearer: > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> In message you wrote: >> If you invest time in solving such problems, than your time willbe >> much better iinvested if you try to help solving the remaining issues >> with Grant's code. >> >> What Grant suggests is the way to go. I do not think your approach has >> chances for mainline. >> > > I am sorry to hear this, especially since what I suggest would be > completely compiler agnostic and would allow to avoid some of the > limitations one must follow today while adding stuff to u-boot. The problem is that the u-boot C runtime setup is insane and must be fixed. Fix the C runtime and the problem goes away. The approach being suggested here would have us *preserve* the insane C runtime and actually depend on the runtime to remain insane in order to work. Not a good approach. The C runtime problem is solvable, but I didn't have the time or resources to properly dig into it and I got frustrated before it was fully debugged. g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.