Re: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme

26 Jul 2008


      In message f608b67d0807250751j137e70c0oe67affcf46399c8e@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
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I think this discussion covers much more ground than needed: certainly
the problem of running the same executable at different addresses has
been solved many times over, for different architectures and file
formats. The thing is that unless we want the loader be part of u-boot
we can not use those standard solutions. And I don't think we want,
because it would be an unnecessary complication.
We do not need a "loader". All we need is "just" relocation working
completely and correctly. At the moment, it is now working completely.
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I still believe that my original suggestion of determining the
addresses of pointers to relocate by comparing to stripped binaries is
the simplest way to do it across architectures. Apparently the same
Maybe I should have been more explicit right from the beginning. I
repeat: forget it. This will *not* go into mainline. Zero chance.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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