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From: Wolfgang Wegner <wolfgang@leila.ping.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC: document feature removal
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:39:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100929093901.GA26120@leila.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285752572-2107-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de>

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:29:32AM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
[...]
>  ---------------------------
> +What:	CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC option
> +When:	After Release 2010.03

should this be 2011.03, or did I misunderstand anything?

> +
> +Why:	The implementation of U-Boot for the ARM architecture has
> +	been reworked to support relocation. This allows to
> +	efficiently use the same U-Bot binary image on systems with
> +	different RAM sizes, and brings the implementation much more
> +	in line with the code used for example on Power Architecture
> +	systems (eventually allowing to merge into common code). This
> +	seems especailly interesting now that ARM is getting Device
> +	Tree support as well.
> +
> +	All ARM boards need to be adapted to this new code, which
> +	requires testing on the actual hardware, so this is a task
> +	for the respective board maintainers or other users.
> +
> +	Please see the commit message of commit f1d2b31 for details:
> +
> +	http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=f1d2b31
> +
> +	Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC will be removed
> +	after release v2010.03; all boards that have not been

here, too, and also in your 2010.09 release note

Regards,
Wolfgang

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-29  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-29  9:29 [U-Boot] [PATCH] CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC: document feature removal Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-29  9:36 ` Rogan Dawes
2010-09-29  9:42   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-29  9:37 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-29  9:39 ` Wolfgang Wegner [this message]
2010-09-29  9:56   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-04  8:58 ` Wolfgang Denk

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