Dear Wolfgang, > -----Original Message----- > From: Wolfgang Denk [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 1:33 PM > To: V, Aneesh > Cc: Reinhard Meyer; Albert ARIBAUD; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [RFC] arm926ejs: fix jump to RAM nand_boot > > Dear "V, Aneesh", > > In message > <[email protected]> you > wrote: > > > > Shouldn't we provide a CONFIG option by which users can disable > > Elf relocation? > > Why should we? It would just make the code even more complicated, > and > require a lot of additional test cases. > > > On production systems you know exactly how much memory you have. > > Relocation may not be very useful. On the other hand faster boot > is a > > bigger concern. Shouldn't we support this case? > > If time in your concern, then did you measure the time the > relocation > costs you? How long is it on your system? >
We will do this measurement and get back to you. > Please be aware that a whole number of other features depend on > doing > real relocation. Also, it brings us a lot closer to use common code If the preloader loads the u-boot to the location that it is built for everything should work fine once bss is initialized, right? Best regards, Aneesh _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
