[U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Kenneth,

in message <1216905458.27201.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
> 
> > It is standard, documented by the ABI, and works fine if done
> > correctly. We just don't do it correctly yet.
> 
> Well the type of runtime relocation that we do in u-boot is not really
> specified in any documentation. What is in the abi is assuming a dynamic
> linker and a proper elf file.
> 
> Gcc can be nice and create a fixup table for us if we ask for it but
> that is not something that exist in any abi document I ever read. That
> also explains why when this reloaction code was initially done we ended
> up with the extra fixup code that tries to catch a few pointer that the
> GOT table is not containing, nobody know the fixup table even existed
> and it sure as hell is not mentioned in the documentation you have to
> read the gcc code to understand what the -mrelocatable option really do.

Thanks for providing such a friendly explanation that the code I came
up is so crappy :-)

Anyway - let's fix it, rather than do something that is *completely*
non-standard.

Thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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