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From: Graeme Russ <graeme.russ@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:44:04 +1000
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC] - Relocating i386 Code - Permission to break orphan
	boards
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Hi Wolfgang,

I have been playing around with gcc's -fpic and ld's -PIE and I think that
I can get 'proper' relocation happening on the i386 port. I've get the
basics down, and I've been looking at /lib_ppc/board.c for how the PPC
relocation scheme works and would like to replicate it (i.e. board_init_f,
board_init_r and relocate_code.

Unfortunately this leaves two options:

 1) Tangle the i386 port up in a heap of #ifdefs, or;
 2) Do a clean re-write for the eNET and break the other i386 boards
    (sc520_cdp and sc520_spunk).

The other two i386 boards are OLD and i have my doubts as to if they ever
did work completely, and have really strong doubts as to them working now

I would really like to just throw all the old code out and do it all
cleanly, but not without strong support from the community.

What are your thoughts?

Regards,

G