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From: Kenneth Johansson <kenneth@southpole.se>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:12:20 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme
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On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:57 +0200, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> Kenneth Johansson <kenneth@southpole.se> wrote:
> > you have to
> > read the gcc code to understand what the -mrelocatable option really do.
> 
> Plus it's only defined for PowerPC. What do we do on the 11 other
> architectures?

Well other architectures works in different ways and thus has other
flags.

> We could build u-boot as a shared library I guess, but that feels a bit
> weird...

What do you mean by that ? u-boot is already compiled with the -fPIC
option.