Dear Aneesh V, In message <4dd264b7.9060...@ti.com> you wrote: > > In ARM literature this kind of situations are also referred to as "self- > modifying". Here is an excerpt from ARM manual gloassary:
I see. Thanks. > > Well, all the data copy will also use cached writes, which are much > > You mean, you will do a range-flush on only the .text section's area? That should indeed be sufficient. > > faster. I think this will result in measurable time differences. > > Relocation itself was not taking a huge amount of time in my > measurement sometime back. It was about 16 ms for OMAP4. I was especially talking about the loading from external storage, not primarily relocation. This will even be mnore important if we had (much) bigger images - like when loading an OS kernel as second stage payload instead of U-Boot. 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 I see that Microsoft's campaign to destroy all knowledge of any operating environment but its own environment-of-the-year has succeeded in creating a generation of users who don't understand the concept of a shell... -- L. Peter Deutsch in <m0x5jnx-000r...@lamp.aladdin.com> _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot