[U-Boot] arm, omap3, beagle: initial stack pointer setup
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Oct 27 14:29:18 CEST 2010
Dear Steve Sakoman,
In message <1288181563.2342.98.camel at quadra> you wrote:
>
> > Why that? From the current settings I would expect something like
> >
> > CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR 0x4020f800
> > CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE 0x800
> >
> > I see no reason to substract the top 16 bytes?
>
> Agreed. I saw this issue last night, but didn't have enough time to
> prepare a fix.
Um... on PowerPC, we need to initialize the stack with a final stack
frame (on PPC 2 x 32 bit zero) so that stack backtraces terminate
cleanly. Eventually the reserved space was intended for similar
purposes, but if so, I cannot see that from the code.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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