[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/26] arm: add full relocation / cache support

Wolfgang Denk
2010-08-11T20:01:36Z

Dear Heiko Schocher,

a few comments...

In message <4C62E8C3.8050006@denx.de> you wrote:
> This patch series add full relocation and cache support for arm
> based boards. I test this for arm1136, arm_cortexa8 and arm926ejs
> based boards.
>
> Relocation support:
>
> !! This change is not compatible to old code !!

To make it clear: only the relocation part will break all ports that
have not been adapted yet. One could try and use only the cache
support patches, and skip the reloc stuff for now.

> If you want to compile in old style, you can set
>
> CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC
>
> but this possibility will be removed soon, so please
> adapt your board(s)

The plan is as follows:

I will pull this stuff into the "next" branch about one week after I
released "rc1". I intend to keep this "CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC"
feature for a full release cycle. Early in the next branch for the
following release it will be removed. Any boards that are not yet
converted then will break. If the breakage does not get fixed by
board maintainers or interested users, we will remove these obviously
unmaintained boards, then.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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