From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:47:26 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC] [PATCH] arm: arm926ejs: use ELF relocations In-Reply-To: <20101005053017.324B51539A0@gemini.denx.de> References: <1286229705-16019-1-git-send-email-albert.aribaud@free.fr> <4CAA50AA.3000608@free.fr> <20101005053017.324B51539A0@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4CAABBEE.2000509@free.fr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Le 05/10/2010 07:30, Wolfgang Denk a ?crit : > Dear Albert ARIBAUD, > > In message<4CAA50AA.3000608@free.fr> you wrote: >> >> Remember: this patch only applies to boards which boot from NOR FLASH! >> You can test it on other types of boards (NAND-based, etc) for >> regression testing, but nothing more. > > Assuming the NAND loder does not load U-Boot to it's final location > at the upper end of RAM, but - say - somewhere in lower memory, the > standard relocation preocess will be running, so I think there should > be no real difference between (such) NAND booting systems and NOR > booting ones - or am I missing something? No, you're not; instead of "but [you can test] nothing more", I should have written "but don't expect much more" -- NAND testers may find it works because yes, relocation does not differ whether from FLASH or from RAM; however I did nothing to make sure NAND booting (and other similar methods) works, whereas I spent quite some time to make NOR boot work. > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk Amicalement, -- Albert.