Re: [PATCH] binfmt_flat: minimum support for theBlackfin relocations

From: Mike Frysinger
Date: Wed Sep 19 2007 - 23:43:06 EST


On 9/19/07, Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:55:25AM +1000, David McCullough wrote:
> > Jivin Robin Getz lays it down ...
> > > On Tue 18 Sep 2007 04:09, Bryan Wu pondered:
> > > > This just adds minimum support for the Blackfin relocations,
> > > > since we don't have enough space in each reloc. The idea
> > > > is to store a value with one relocation so that subsequent ones can
> > > > access it.
> > >
> > > Adding the other appropriate maintainers. for h8, m32r, sh and v850.
> >
> > Looks fine to me, obviously impacts the existing arches very little.
> > Can't see why it shouldn't get included,
>
> I find it a bit disconcerting that blackfin already depends on this
> in-tree without there being any earlier discussion on making these
> changes.

not really ... this patch was posted before but was lost in the
shuffle ... and i'm not quite sure what you mean by "depends on" ...
if you want to use the FLAT file format on a Blackfin processor, then
this patch is needed, but that isnt the only file format that works on
the Blackfin port as we also have FDPIC ELF

i havent used FLAT files on a Blackfin board in quite a long time actually ...
-mike
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