From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heiko Schocher Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:34:13 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/26] arm: add full relocation / cache support In-Reply-To: <20100811200136.EE5471536EF@gemini.denx.de> References: <4C62E8C3.8050006@denx.de> <20100811200136.EE5471536EF@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4C6387D5.8080300@denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hello Wolfgang, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > 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. Yep, thats right. Or he/she can set "CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC" >> 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. Ok. Thanks for the clarification. bye Heiko -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany