[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2 v6] Make libgcc inclusion from common Makefile overridable by platform config file

[Scott Wood]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Detlev Zundel,
> 
> In message <m2r5wfzh0l.fsf at ohwell.denx.de> you wrote:
> > 
> > I also think that making our lifes easier is a very good thing.  Our
> > "it's only a bootloader" codebase is pretty complex already so I welcome
> > making it more robust.  I was kind of surprised the other day that
> > null-pointer jumps(*) did not result in immediate "bad programmer, no
> > cookie this time" messages but in random crashes.
> 
> Well, what do you suggest? remember for example that booting a  Linux
> kernel  means  jumping to it's entry point address - which happens to
> be 0 - or is this NULL ? How do you detemine the difference?

The MMU configuration that the OS wants on entry does not necessarily
have to be the same one that the majority of U-Boot code runs with.

-Scott