[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Blackfin: implement go/boote wrappers

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Mon Apr 21 02:31:31 CEST 2008


On Sunday 20 April 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <1208583950-9454-1-git-send-email-vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
> > Override the default go/boote handlers as we want to disable both data
> > and instruction cache before executing external programs (since Blackfin
> > cache handling requires a software handler in U-Boot which may be
> > overwritten).
>
> Umnmm... no. "go" is supposed to be return to U-Boot, i. e. it must
> not overwrite (or otherwise meddle with) any U-Boot code.
>
> I think you should not change cache status for "go".

reality is that people often times use go to execute their binary blobs.  i 
also see it this way: go means to jump to some address and most likely never 
return.
-mike
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