[PATCH 2/3] Add DMO RealQ7 board support

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Fri Mar 8 10:06:09 EST 2013


On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 03:48:43PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > > +	.boot_data.size		= 192 * 1024,
> > > barebox_image_size
> > 
> > ok. This btw will not work with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE as is since the
> > linker cannot generate this value then.
> why?

Absolute values will be zero when you link with -pie. They get fixed
during relocation.

The image size is a relative value, when doing a

	.word __barebox_image_end - start

in assembly it works correctly, but doing the same in C does not work.

> 
> otherwise we need to update it via ld as done in the kernel as example

Can you give me a pointer what the kernel does?

Sascha

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