[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] [NEXT] arm926ejs: reduce code size with -msingle-pic-base

Albert ARIBAUD
2010-09-24T17:13:23Z

Le 24/09/2010 18:58, Rogan Dawes a ?crit :
> On 2010/09/24 6:45 PM, Rogan Dawes wrote:
>> On 2010/09/24 7:47 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
>>
>>> On a side note, I do not know of a clear general definition of
>>> 'bisectability', which means I could break it yet again unkonwingly. Can
>>> you (or anyone, actually :) ) point me to a, or even the, standard
>>> definition of 'bisectable' and, if that has a specific meaning, of
>>> 'fully bisectable'?
>
> Here's a decent LWN.net article on the topic:
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/317154/
>
> Rogan

Thanks Rogan.

Actually I do know the git bisect command, having had to use it to track
a boot issue in recent linux kernel versions; I should have made it
clear that I was looking specifically for the meaning of 'bisectable' --
which you have clarified, thanks again.

So in this specific case, I guess what I should do is look up Heiko's
patch series, see which arm926 boards it makes relocation-capable, and
apply the .lds fx to those. The other arm926 boards, which were left
untouched by Heiko, would not build with his patches anyway, so there is
no real point in fixing them yet. Or is there?

So unless some strong disagreement is voiced, I'll prepare a V3 patch
set which will be V2 + possible fixes stemming from Heiko's and Ben's
test feedback + fixes to the .lds of boards which are made relocation
capable in Heiko's patch series.

Amicalement,
--
Albert.