[U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc: do not fixup NULL ptrs

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Thu Nov 4 10:10:50 CET 2010


Andre Schwarz <andre.schwarz at matrix-vision.de> wrote on 2010/10/25 15:50:19:
>
> Jocke,
>
> [snip]
>
> > You still haven't reported weather the 4 nop's helped or not, yet you
> > seek my help. I am just going to ignore you until you do test it.
> >
> >
>
> finally I got both some time and hardware :
>
> 4 nops after _start does the trick, i.e. the board is up and running fine.
>
>
> Diffing both System.maps and U-Boot hexdump gives only trivial results :
>
> - "in_flash" and "_start_of_vectors" adress increment = 0x10.
> - offset calculation for relative branch instruction also increases by 0x10.
>
>
> Let me know if you need more information or something else tested.

How is this going? If nothing else I think you should send
a patch for 83xx, adding the 4 nop's as your(and mine) board is
broken otherwise. Freescale guys seems busy with other things so
I think this is the best thing to do.

      Jocke



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