Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PPC] PLEASE READ - was: [PATCH] Fix linker scripts: add NOLOAD atribute to .bss/.sbss sections

Wolfgang Denk wrote:

A possible approach to this problem is to avoid using a global register variable and use a plain global variable instead.

Sounds like a good idea to me. If the code works, then this would simplify things a great deal. The code that reads and writes the gd_t isn't time-critical anyway.