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