Hi Scott,
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 19:01 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
This was introduced by commit 244615197469dd6fe75ae082f38424b97c79aeaf, but it fails in a minimal SPL build where the only thing in arch/powerpc/lib is cache.c, which apparently doesn't generate any fixup records.
If this check is really still needed, it should be moved somewhere more appropriate, but given that it's been three years and no other architecture does a test like this, I think we can remove it. It would have been nice if the original commit said how old the problematic toolchains were.
There was a discussion about it a long while back that has some version information: http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg21415.html
Based on my testing I only could reproduce the issue with 3.x versions, which are 7+ years old.
Best, Peter