[U-Boot] Most ARM CPU's have buggy clear_bss?

[Reinhard Meyer]

On 28.10.2010 08:20, Reinhard Meyer wrote:
> On 28.10.2010 08:17, Heiko Schocher wrote:
>> Hello Reinhard,
>>
>> Reinhard Meyer wrote:
>>> Dear Darius,
>>>>> Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 57fbe000
>>>>> NAND:  raise: Signal # 8 caught
>>>>> raise: Signal # 8 caught
>>>>> raise: Signal # 8 caught
>>>> This looks suspect to me. Seems to me some early init
>>>> (pin setup? clocks?) is not OK. If you have early inits,
>>>> you must do that now in board_early_init_f() (and you
>>>> have to define CONFIG_BOARD_EARLY_INIT_F to enable this
>>>> feature)
>>> I got _exactly_ the same NAND messages when ARM relocation
>>> was first used, because the timer.c did use static variables
>>> which are not working _before relocation_.
>>> Have a look at your timer implementation.
>>
>> Huh.. thought the elf relocation fixed this problem?
> 2x Huh.. How would it? I moved the timer static vars into
> global_data, THAT fixed the issue.
OK, I should have mentioned, that those variables are values
that are calculated _before_ relocation in timer_init and
needed to have those values for any subsequent timer use
before and after relocation...
>
> Reinhard