On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 10:50:10AM +0800, Chia-Wei Wang wrote: > A U-Boot image could be loaded and executed at a different > location than it was linked at. > > For example, Aspeed takes a stable release version of U-Boot image > as the golden one for recovery purposes. When the primary storage > such as flash is corrupted, the golden image would be loaded to any > SRAM/DRAM address on demands through ethernet/UART/etc and run for > rescue. > > To deal with this condition, the PIE is needed as there is only one > signed, golden image, which could be however executed at different > places. > > This patch adds the PIE support for ARMv7 platform. > > Signed-off-by: Chia-Wei Wang <chiawei_w...@aspeedtech.com>
Applied to u-boot/next, thanks! -- Tom
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