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From: Shinya Kuribayashi <skuribay@pobox.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/26] arm: add full relocation / cache support
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:50:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C63EE15.4060207@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C62E8C3.8050006@denx.de>

On 08/12/2010 03:15 AM, Heiko Schocher 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 !!
> 
> 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)
> 
> changed arch/arm/lib/board.c to get inline with arch/powerpc/lib/board.c
> maybe it is possible to snyc them to one arch/generic/lib/board.c?
> 
> This approach is similiar to powerpc, so there is a need for
> an initial stack pointer addr defined through CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR.
> 
> Please also read doc/README.arm-relocation There is more
> info what is done, and maybe should be done.
 
It would be gratefull if someone could expalain a bit about this big
change.  What's the primary motivation for full relocation?  I found
a Wiki page (below), is this the one?

http://elinux.org/CELF_Project_Proposal/Rework_ARM_architecture_support_in_U-Boot

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-12 12:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-11 18:15 [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/26] arm: add full relocation / cache support Heiko Schocher
2010-08-11 20:00 ` Ben Gardiner
2010-08-11 20:36   ` Ben Gardiner
2010-08-11 20:01 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-08-12  5:34   ` Heiko Schocher
2010-08-12 20:49   ` Magnus Lilja
2010-08-13 10:01     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-08-12 12:50 ` Shinya Kuribayashi [this message]
2010-08-12 12:55   ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2010-08-12 20:19     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-08-12 20:17   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-08-13 14:36     ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2010-09-17 11:10 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/26 v2][NEXT] " Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 01/26 v2][NEXT] arm: get rid of bi_env Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 02/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: cp15: setup mmu and enable dcache Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10       ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/26 v2][NEXT] ARM (ARM926ejs): add data cache support, tested on magnesium and tx25 board Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 04/26 v2][NEXT] ARM V7 (OMAP): add data cache support, test on Beagle board Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 05/26 v2][NEXT] ARM (ARM11): add data cache support, test on Qong board Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 06/26 v2][NEXT] relocation: fixup cmdtable Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 07/26 v2][NEXT] common: move TOTAL_MALLOC_LEN to include/common.h Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 08/26 v2][NEXT] i2c: fix command usage help Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 09/26 v2][NEXT] disk/part.c: fix relocation fixup Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 10/26 v2][NEXT] i2c, omap24xx: set bus_initialized only after relocation Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                       ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 11/26 v2][NEXT] nand_boot_fsl_nfc.c: make "nfc" a "static const" pointer Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 12/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: add relocation support Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 13/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for ARM11 Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 14/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for ARM V7 (OMAP) Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 15/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for ARM926 Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 16/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for ARM920 Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 17/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for ARM925 Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 18/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for ARM946 Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                       ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 19/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for pxa Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 20/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for ixp Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 21/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for sa1100 Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                             ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 22/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for s3c44b0 Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 23/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for lh7a40x Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 24/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for arm_intcm Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                                   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 25/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for arm720t Heiko Schocher
2010-09-17 11:10                                                     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 26/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for arm1176 Heiko Schocher
2010-09-22  9:32                                 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 15/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for ARM926 Albert ARIBAUD
2010-09-17 21:40                               ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 14/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: implement relocation for ARM V7 (OMAP) John Rigby
2010-09-17 22:02                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-19  1:21                                   ` John Rigby
2010-09-19  6:07                                     ` Heiko Schocher
2010-09-19  6:59                                       ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-19  6:58                                     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-17 13:07                           ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 12/26 v2][NEXT] ARM: add relocation support Albert ARIBAUD
2010-09-17 14:54                             ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-17 16:44                               ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-09-17 19:22                                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-17 22:58                                   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-09-18 22:35                           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-09-18 22:58                             ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-19  6:04                               ` Heiko Schocher
2010-09-19  7:17                                 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-09-19  8:28                           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-09-19 11:17                           ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-19 11:56                             ` Heiko Schocher
2010-09-18 23:19   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 00/26 v2][NEXT] arm: add full relocation / cache support Wolfgang Denk
2010-09-22 17:51   ` Ben Gardiner

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