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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:46:17 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC] [PATCH V2] arm: arm926ejs: use ELF relocations
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Le 05/10/2010 13:17, Reinhard Meyer a ?crit :
> Dear All ;)
>>> Umm... is my understanding correct that we can drop the whole
>>> CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC stuff then, too?
>>
>> I believe we're just changing the relocation solution, but we're not
>> changing the overall strategy regarding CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC.
>
> We should not forget that right now, the "ELF" method uses 8 byte entries
> to relocate, compared to 4 byte entries with the "GOT" method. We
> should not proceed too fast here, the "thought about" tool to squeeze down
> the relocation information should not be completely forgotten...
>
> Otherwise even more boards would need to change their mtd partitioning ;)
>
> And I am not too happy if I cannot downgrade to the AT91SAM9XE256 anymore
> (256K NOR) if the 512K version proves difficult to obtain ;)
>
> Reinhard

I still think a configuration option to choose between relocation 
formats would be useful. It could offer:

- pure ELF format (8 bytes per relocation plus .dynsym)

... already there, and then to be done:

- unified 32-bit format (half the size of pure ELF)

- unified 16-bit delta format (a fourth of the size of pure ELF)

Note these would probably be arch-specific; but maybe not.

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.