[U-Boot] [PATCH] overo: add SPL support

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Dec 20 06:43:28 CET 2011


Dear Tom Rini,

In message <CA+M6bX=bBFBaVm4aD2hVJfLXovtGjmKO9V40E+NyWtMtoaOV6A at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > 'i2c_base' is correctly located in SRAM but 'current_bus' and 'bus_initialized'
> > are located in CS0 SDRAM which is at the time of call not yet initalized. This
> > fits to the crash behaviour: Accessing 'i2c_base' does not cause trouble.
> > How can I move 'current_bus' and 'bus_initialized' to SRAM?

I guess you really, really must use i2c before relocation?  If
possible, this should be avoided in the first place.

> Ah-ha!  Good work.  If you initialize them to a non-zero value,
> statically (and make sure the code doesn't assume they're 0 by
> default), this will change.

No, this is justy hiding the problem, and the next one who believes
the value doesn't fit and changes it back to 0 runs into the issue
again.  Rather use an explicit

	int foo __attribute__ ((section(".data"))) = 0;

so everybody sees the real intention.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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