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

Andre Schwarz andre.schwarz at matrix-vision.de
Tue Oct 26 12:28:14 CEST 2010


Wolfgang,
> Dear Andre Schwarz,
>
> In message<4CC5C226.8080202 at matrix-vision.de>  you wrote:
>    
>> Having a look at include/asm/global_data.h gives some 40 ulongs for my
>> MPC8377 system.
>> Current CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE= 0x100 which should be enough.
>>      
> Indeed. I was asking because I just discovered that most of the
> PowerPC boards are actually broken in this respect - 89 % of them,
> 170 out of 191 :-(
>    

understood - this should be easy to fix.

>> The system is still dead after removing the 4 nops after _start.
>>      
> Sorry, but it was worth a try.
>    

absolutely - so don't mind.
I'm still happy to get any directions at all.

Still wondering why there's no comment from Kim etc. ...


Regards,
André

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