[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 2/3] net: add phylib implementation

Mike Frysinger
2009-08-27T05:54:47Z

On Thursday 27 August 2009 01:11:32 Stefan Roese wrote:
> On Thursday 27 August 2009 03:55:57 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > +int phy_init(void)
> > > +{
> > > + /* Initialize the list */
> > > + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&phy_drvs.list);
> >
> > does it really need to be dynamic ? arent there static initializers so
> > this can be done in .data ?
>
> Using static initializers fails on PPC because of the somewhat broken
> relocation. So this dynamic implementation is the preferred version, at
> least for PPC people.

so the ppc port cant use the .data section at all ? that doesnt sound correct
to me.
-mike
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