Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
In message 4CE66215.2030103@free.fr you wrote:
There is a variant of this problem with many ARM boards, those based on Marvell SoCs for instance, which have a start address at 0xFFFF0000 -- that's a 64K block the usage of which we want to maximize.
Yes, that's basicly a simialr problem.
I had a general solution to this by, in summary, building a linear u-boot, then splitting the binary when flashing, and have the copy loop in the startup stitch back the parts. However, this solution did not work well with relocation, and may not necessarily be applicable to non-ARM archs. However, now that we have a (mostly) stabilized relocation mechanism, I'll dig again into this solution.
The problem is that we're now linked for running in flash, so the linker should be the tool that performs the location of code into the output image.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk