[U-Boot] [RFC] [PATCH] arm: arm926ejs: use ELF relocations

Graeme Russ
2010-10-04T23:23:21Z

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Albert Aribaud <albert.aribaud@free.fr> wrote:
> This patch is *not* a submission for master!
>
> It is a proof of concept of ELF relocations for ARM, hastily done
> in a day's work time for people on the list to try and to comment.
> All comments are welcome, as several suggestions have been made
> today on the list that I did not have time to incorporate, such as
> rewriting the elf table fixup code in C.
>
> The basic idea of this patch is to replace the -fPIC compile-time
> option with the -pie link-time option. This removes the GOT but adds
> the .rel.dyn and .dynsym tables, which together allow fixing up code
> more completely than with -fPIC and the GOT; for instance, all pointers
> inside structures are fixed up with -pie, whereas they are not with GOT.
>

So does this make all of Heiko's ARM relocation patches redundant?

Regards,

Graeme