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CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC: document feature removal
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
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doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt
| 1 | 1 | The following is a list of files and features that are going to be |
| 2 | 2 | removed from the U-Boot source tree. Every entry should contain what |
| 3 | 3 | exactly is going away, when it will be gone, why it is being removed, |
| 4 | -and who is going to be doing the work. When the feature is removed | |
| 4 | +and who is going to be doing the work. When the feature is removed | |
| 5 | 5 | from U-Boot, its corresponding entry should also be removed from this |
| 6 | 6 | file. |
| 7 | + | |
| 8 | +--------------------------- | |
| 9 | +What: CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC option | |
| 10 | +When: After Release 2011.03 | |
| 11 | + | |
| 12 | +Why: The implementation of U-Boot for the ARM architecture has | |
| 13 | + been reworked to support relocation. This allows to | |
| 14 | + efficiently use the same U-Boot binary image on systems with | |
| 15 | + different RAM sizes, and brings the implementation much more | |
| 16 | + in line with the code used for example on Power Architecture | |
| 17 | + systems (eventually allowing to merge into common code). This | |
| 18 | + seems especailly interesting now that ARM is getting Device | |
| 19 | + Tree support as well. | |
| 20 | + | |
| 21 | + All ARM boards need to be adapted to this new code, which | |
| 22 | + requires testing on the actual hardware, so this is a task | |
| 23 | + for the respective board maintainers or other users. | |
| 24 | + | |
| 25 | + Please see the commit message of commit f1d2b31 for details: | |
| 26 | + | |
| 27 | + http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commit;h=f1d2b31 | |
| 28 | + | |
| 29 | + Support for CONFIG_SYS_ARM_WITHOUT_RELOC will be removed | |
| 30 | + after release v2011.03; all boards that have not been | |
| 31 | + converted by then, i. e. that are still broken then, are | |
| 32 | + considered unmaintained and without interest for the | |
| 33 | + community and will be removed as well. | |
| 7 | 34 | |
| 8 | 35 | --------------------------- |
| 9 | 36 |