[U-Boot] arm, omap3, beagle: initial stack pointer setup

Heiko Schocher hs at denx.de
Wed Oct 27 15:04:06 CEST 2010


Hello Steve,

Steve Sakoman wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:23 +0200, Heiko Schocher wrote:
>> Hello Steve,
>>
>> Steve Sakoman wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 09:14 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>>> Dear Heiko Schocher,
>>>>
>>>> In message <4CC7C628.70402 at denx.de> you wrote:
>>>>> CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR	(SRAM_VECT_CODE)
>>>>>                                  ^
>>>>>                                  0x4020f800
>>>>> CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE	0x7f0
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I'll generate and test a patch on the OMAP boards which have implemented
>>> relocation.
>> Ok, thanks!
> 
> Now that I have some coffee, I think I see the actual reason that the
> build was broken.
> 
> If you look at the error output:
> 
> start.S: Assembler messages:
> start.S:175: Error: missing ')'
> start.S:175: Error: missing ')'
> start.S:175: Error: garbage following instruction -- `ldr sp,=((0x4020f800+0x800-#96))'
> 
> It is apparent that the assembler does not like that GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE is defined as "#96"
> 
> I tried without the # symbol and the build completes successfully.

Already fixed here:

http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2010-October/080455.html

> I'll prepare a patch to use CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_ADDR and
> CONFIG_SYS_INIT_RAM_SIZE on the OMAP boards with relocation, because
> that is still a good idea, but we also need to deal with the prepended #
> symbol.

Ok, thanks.

bye,
Heiko
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