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| author | Chia-Wei Wang <chiawei_wang@aspeedtech.com> | 2021-08-03 05:50:10 +0300 |
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| committer | Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> | 2021-09-02 16:48:20 +0300 |
| commit | cd82f199852d88218e1f17f5ec07cdd9112a89c4 (patch) | |
| tree | f69d3b9a4abc0505567961380bd69929e5570318 /arch/arm/Kconfig | |
| parent | aa29b21d62d298fadcfbc8e36d8d248fbb24b52d (diff) | |
| download | u-boot-cd82f199852d88218e1f17f5ec07cdd9112a89c4.tar.xz | |
armv7: Add Position Independent Execution support
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_wang@aspeedtech.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 31ae2950ee..50efb5e2e2 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ config ARM64 config POSITION_INDEPENDENT bool "Generate position-independent pre-relocation code" - depends on ARM64 + depends on ARM64 || CPU_V7A help U-Boot expects to be linked to a specific hard-coded address, and to be loaded to and run from that address. This option lifts that |