From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Wegner Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:39:01 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC: document feature removal In-Reply-To: <1285752572-2107-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de> References: <1285752572-2107-1-git-send-email-wd@denx.de> Message-ID: <20100929093901.GA26120@leila.ping.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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