Dear Joakim Tjernlund, In message <ofe6153b0a.80735dd8-onc12577b2.002963a5-c12577b2.0029d...@transmode.se> you wrote: > > However, I think we will loose the possibility to add "link once, burn and > run anywhere" > feature I impl. once(but it was at the time deemed to intrusive) if > we skip -fPIC and go for the linker -pie relocation. > > I would suggest to leave ppc as is for the time being and > see how -pie works out on the other archs.
I see two tasks here: Prio 1: fix the current problems on ARM Prio 2: make architectures as similar as possible. My dream would be to have all that work in the same way (even if eventually differen mechanisms need ti be deployed) on ARM, x86 and PPC (and MIPS? and others?). 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: w...@denx.de No question is too silly to ask. Of course, some questions are too silly to to answer... - L. Wall & R. L. Schwartz, _Programming Perl_ _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot