[U-Boot] [RFC] arm926ejs: fix jump to RAM nand_boot

Wolfgang Denk
2010-11-03T08:02:36Z

Dear "V, Aneesh",

In message <FF55437E1F14DA4BAEB721A458B6701706FD313705@dbde02.ent.ti.com> you wrote:
>
> Shouldn't we provide a CONFIG option by which users can disable
> Elf relocation?

Why should we? It would just make the code even more complicated, and
require a lot of additional test cases.

> On production systems you know exactly how much memory you have.
> Relocation may not be very useful. On the other hand faster boot is a
> bigger concern. Shouldn't we support this case?

If time in your concern, then did you measure the time the relocation
costs you? How long is it on your system?

Please be aware that a whole number of other features depend on doing
real relocation. Also, it brings us a lot closer to use common code
across architectures, instead of having to maintain several different
(and differently behaving) implementations.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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