[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm1136: timer: Replace bss variable by gd

Albert ARIBAUD
2011-01-20T20:34:46Z

Le 19/12/2010 09:45, Heiko Schocher a ?crit :
> Hello Wolfgang,
>
> Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> Dear Albert& Heiko,
>>
>> In message<4D01E031.3090100@free.fr> you wrote:
>>>> Reuse the gd->tbl value for timestamp and add gd->lastinc for lastinc bss
>>>> values in the arm1136 timer driver for mx31 and omap24xx
>>>>
>>>> The usage of bss values in drivers before initialisation of bss is forbid> den.
>>>> In that special case some data in .rel.dyn gets corrupted.
>>>>
>>>> This patch is similiar to the patch Dirk Behme posted
>>>> for the armv7/omap-common/timer.c
>>>>
>>>> Tested on the mx31 based qong board
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher<hs@denx.de>
>>>> cc: Albert ARIBAUD<albert.aribaud@free.fr>
>>> FWIW,
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Albert ARIBAUD<albert.aribaud@free.fr>
>>
>> Should I pull this into v2010.12, or should we rather wait for amore
>> general solution and fix it in the next release?
>
> I vote for pulling this into the v2010.12 release, beause it is a
> bugfix and we get a working code with elf relocation(conceding the
> patch is not a perfekt solution, but working)
>
> bye,
> Heiko

Applied to u-boot-arm, thanks and apologies for the late action.

Amicalement,
--
Albert.