From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:53:56 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de entry/return, assignment of the args to registers (say 8 instructions all up), and perhaps take advantage of already-calculated partial expressions. Actually it took a bit of messing around to reduce the overhead of this patch to that level. > > >>>> - Make relocation symbols global so we can use them outside start.S >>> >>> >>> Why should they relocation symbols ever be used outside of actually >>> relocating? >> >> >> Well since relocation is moving out of start.S to a generic library >> which is not architecture-specific, we must make these symbols >> available to it. Otherwise the generic code doesn't know what it is >> relocating. > > > Understood. My point is that they should not be made available to code ot= her > than the relocation code. Oh I see. Yes of course. Regards, Simon > >> Regards, >> Simon > > > Amicalement, > -- > Albert.