[U-Boot] A question about "Initialize GOT pointer"

[Andrew Dyer]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:41 AM, XR SU <x_r_su at yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
> hi,all:
> here is a question, who can tell me? thanks.
>
> in uboot file : cpu/mips/start.S
>
> /* Initialize GOT pointer. */
>         bal     1f
>         nop
>         .word   _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
>         1:
>         move    gp, ra
>         lw      t1, 0(ra)
>         move    gp, t1
>
> I do't know why code "move    gp, ra"  needed?  what happened if we remove these code?

You're using old code.  That was fixed about two years ago.

See http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=commitdiff;h=16664f72850846e645616da1c0fa5afcd6d15f15