Dear Albert Aribaud, Heiko Schocher,
ELF relocation tables generated with linker option -pie can be used to fixup code and data in a single loop at relocation, removing the need for manual fixups anywhere else in the code.
To me it looks now like we have dangling use of
CONFIG_SKIP_RELOCATE_UBOOT and CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC
all over the source, but it appears to me that they can't really work anymore (I have not tested that).
Although I am not happy to have that removed right now (for code size concerns), I would suggest to remove all relocation preventing code which should make the code much more readable. If really required, a new introduction of a define, mainly changing the linker options not to emit relocation information and skipping a few lines of relocation business _could_ be introduced.
Best Regards, Reinhard