Dear All,
I m new to U-Boot . Plz dont neglect me may be this a sily question but I
want to know is U-Boot is using directly physical address or virtual address
of a processor .
plz reply this question .
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> 4. Re: Changing u-boot relocation scheme (Grant Likely)
> 5. Re: Changing u-boot relocation scheme (Grant Likely)
> 6. Re: Changing u-boot relocation scheme (vb)
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> 8. Re: Changing u-boot relocation scheme (Grant Likely)
> 9. Re: Changing u-boot relocation scheme (Grant Likely)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:36:35 +0200
> From: Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme
> To: kenneth johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Haavard
> Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerry Van Baren
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> >
> > I know exactly what Grant did. But he is not using the elf relocation
> > information as that is simply not included in the data that is the
> > u-boot.bin file.
>
> So what? Is this a problem? Why would we need to use XXX if we can
> perform all we need to do by using YYY instead, especially if this is
> simpler to implement?
>
> > Also this discussion is more about doing it in a way that is not powerpc
> > specific and documented, we already have as you mentioned code for the
> > powerpc specific way but it's not using elf relocation information.
>
> Who says that we MUST use the ELF reloc info?
>
> Or why?
>
> > I was afraid that what was needed was more or less a complete linker but
> > it looks like if one generate the dynamic reloc table a much simpler
> > linker(relocation function) is needed. Still probably a lot more complex
> > than the GOT and fixup code that is just a loop over a table. We may
> > need a case also ;-)
>
> Please re-read Grant's patch. There were NO changes to the existing
> simple code!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:36:35 +0200
> From: Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme
> To: Haavard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Jerry
> Van
> Baren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I'll stop the chest-beating now. But please stop trying to tell
> > people that adding a powerpc-specific option (which nobody seems to
> > know how really works) to the command line will work on any other
> > architectures than powerpc.
>
> OK - then please you explain exactly which other architectures have
> problems with relocation?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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> HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
> Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I am more bored than you could ever possibly be. Go back to work.
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>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:36:35 +0200
> From: Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme
> To: "Joakim Tjernlund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: 'vb' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net, 'Haavard
> Skinnemoen' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@transmode.se> you
> wrote:
> >
> > I think the best bet is to make -mrelocatable work for PPC. Question is
> how
> > does the other arches do it? Do they include fixup ptrs by default or do
> > they lack this functionality?
>
> The question that needs to answered first is if any other
> architectures are affected at all, and if so, which ones.
>
> For example, ARM and MIPS (and probably most others) do *NOT* perform
> any relocation at all (this should be fixed, of course - being one of
> the big probalems we inherited from the original ARMBoot port), but as
> is the whole discussion is a non-isssue on these architectures.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:43:31 -0400
> From: "Grant Likely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme
> To: vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:45 AM, vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Wolfgang, thank you for your reply, let me try to explain myself a bit
> clearer:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> you wrote:
> >> If you invest time in solving such problems, than your time willbe
> >> much better iinvested if you try to help solving the remaining issues
> >> with Grant's code.
> >>
> >> What Grant suggests is the way to go. I do not think your approach has
> >> chances for mainline.
> >>
> >
> > I am sorry to hear this, especially since what I suggest would be
> > completely compiler agnostic and would allow to avoid some of the
> > limitations one must follow today while adding stuff to u-boot.
>
> The problem is that the u-boot C runtime setup is insane and must be
> fixed. Fix the C runtime and the problem goes away. The approach
> being suggested here would have us *preserve* the insane C runtime and
> actually depend on the runtime to remain insane in order to work.
>
> Not a good approach.
>
> The C runtime problem is solvable, but I didn't have the time or
> resources to properly dig into it and I got frustrated before it was
> fully debugged.
>
> g.
>
> --
> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:48:09 -0400
> From: "Grant Likely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme
> To: "Kenneth Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Haavard
> Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Denk <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Kenneth Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 10:37 -0700, vb wrote:
> >> But as you pointed out, this would work on ppc only (with a 'good'
> >> compiler), and still remains to be proven, I will get to it a bit
> >> later.
> >
> > I have run u-boot with everything compiled with -mrelocatable and normal
> > relocation fixup code removed so I know it works fine. So consider it
> > proven. But since it apparently is a problem in some situation the best
> > is probably to make it a configuration option.
>
> Can you test against various versions of gcc? That is where I ran into
> trouble.
>
> g.
>
> --
> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:51:26 -0700
> From: vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme
> To: "Wolfgang Denk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> you wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I should have been more explicit right from the beginning. I
> > repeat: forget it. This will *not* go into mainline. Zero chance.
> >
>
> well, it's your call, I'ill stick with -mrelocatable on 'non native'
> modules then.
>
> cheers,
> /vb
>
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Wolfgang Denk
> >
> > --
> > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel
> > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
> > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x
> > 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could
> > forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.
> > -- Tom Duff, Bell Labs
> >
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:54:51 -0700
> From: vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme
> To: "Grant Likely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Grant Likely
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that the u-boot C runtime setup is insane and must be
> > fixed. Fix the C runtime and the problem goes away. The approach
> > being suggested here would have us *preserve* the insane C runtime and
> > actually depend on the runtime to remain insane in order to work.
> >
>
> Grant, thank you for pitching in.
>
> It would be great if you could elaborate what exactly is insane about
> C runtime setup (especially since in u-boot its code comes from the
> source tree and not from some obscure compiler dependent library) and
> how its insanity is related here.
>
> TIA,
> /vb
>
> > Not a good approach.
> >
> > The C runtime problem is solvable, but I didn't have the time or
> > resources to properly dig into it and I got frustrated before it was
> > fully debugged.
> >
> > g.
> >
> > --
> > Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> > Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:57:02 -0400
> From: "Grant Likely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme
> To: "kenneth johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Haavard
> Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Denk <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jerry Van Baren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:28 PM, kenneth johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > I was afraid that what was needed was more or less a complete linker but
> > it looks like if one generate the dynamic reloc table a much simpler
> > linker(relocation function) is needed. Still probably a lot more complex
> > than the GOT and fixup code that is just a loop over a table. We may
> > need a case also ;-)
>
> The GOT relocation works. It works really well. As long as gcc and
> ld put the correct GOT bits into the GOT table. It seems not all
> versions of gcc do it in the same way with the same flags.
>
> g.
>
> --
> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:06:36 -0400
> From: "Grant Likely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Changing u-boot relocation scheme
> To: "Haavard Skinnemoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Wolfgang
> Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerry Van Baren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Haavard Skinnemoen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Ok, I'll stop the chest-beating now. But please stop trying to tell
> > people that adding a powerpc-specific option (which nobody seems to
> > know how really works) to the command line will work on any other
> > architectures than powerpc.
>
> 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.
>
> BTW, searching for assignments to reloc_off in the source will tell
> you which platforms are broken.
>
> g.
>
> --
> Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
> Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
>
>
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