Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] arm64: Add tool to statically apply RELA relocations

ARM64 uses the newer RELA-style relocations rather than the older REL. RELA relocations have an addend in the relocation struct, rather than expecting the loader to read a value from the location to be updated.

While this is beneficial for ordinary program loading, it's problematic

How it is beneficial than rel format? Why aarch64-gcc use rela format only instead of supporting two format? these confuse me a few months.

David,