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---+ Fix Relocation

Currently relocation is not working as it should:
as is, statically initialized pointers must be manually relocated,
or they will continue to point into flash which may make U-Boot crash when the
original flash image should get erased during some update procedures.

Patches were provided, but had to be backed out because of incompatibilities
with certain tool chanes.

See for example http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/33297 

Note: according to http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/46596
the string pointers in uimage_{arch,os,type,comp}[] are not being
relocated and still point to flash.
This is a bug that needs to be fixed one way or another.

-- Main.WolfgangDenk - 12 Oct 2008

Revision r1.1 - 12 Oct 2008 - 22:43 - WolfgangDenk
Diffs | r1.1

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