On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:10 +0200, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:28:16 +0200 Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
In message 20080724185734.6d79c419@hskinnemo-gx745.norway.atmel.com you wrote:
We could build u-boot as a shared library I guess, but that feels a bit weird...
Shared? Shared by what?
An ELF shared library has the dynamic relocations we need. So if we build u-boot as an .so file, it should work in theory on most architectures.
Haavard
well the elf binary of u-boot obviously has everything we need regardless of what options it was compiled with. If we had a full linker at runtime we could just do a relink to whatever address we wanted.
It sounds a bit easier to just loop over a list of pointers and change the values than to implement a complete linker but maybe that is just me.