Hi Heinrich, On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 at 17:26, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hello Simon, > > unfortunately I could not find any documentation for > arch/arm/lib/reloc_aarch64_efi.c. > > EFI binaries never rely on dynamically loaded libraries. > So there will never be any dynamic symbols in an EFI binary. > There will not be any GOT either. > > Relocation is handled by the firmware (e.g. in our efi_load_pe()). > > So it is unclear to me why the function _relocate() is needed which > tries to deal with dynamic symbols. > > elf.h defines an array _DYNAMIC[] used as argument for _relocate(). But > I could not find any place where it is actually implemented. So I assume > that the output of _relocate() is rather undefined. > > As the function _relocate() was once introduced by one of your patches I > hope you can provide me some insight, please.
The code is designed to relocate itself. If I recall correctly it came from Linux (see headers in the files added). Perhaps Linux has to do this since it doesn't rely on having a proper boot loader like U-Boot to do this relocation? So perhaps we don't need this code? Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot