In message fa686aa40807252306p14e0fe43ta7fba15b4b43b492@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
You are completely right. For the purposes of this discussion, this is a powerpc-centric problem. The relocation code is written in assembly and is processor specific. Let the ARM folks make sure ARM relocation works (and I think it already does). Let the MIPS folks do the same. Each arch has it's own set of CFLAGS and LDFLAGS needed to produce a sane binary. They should be picked off and fixed one arch at a time.
Neither ARM nor MIPS do relocation. They link for a fixed address in RAM (which for example means that they cannot deal in a sane way with systems where the RAM size might change, not to mention issues with things like support for pRAM, pre-initialized framebuffers or shared log buffer which only work reasonably when you have relocation.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk