[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 06/22] Add generic spl infrastructure

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Aneesh V,

In message <4DD21BAA.6000601 at ti.com> you wrote:
> 
> > What is MLO?
> 
> MLO is the name of SPL created for OMAP. ROM code expects a file with
> this name as the first image when it boots from FAT.

What does MLO mean?


> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_PRELOADER
> >> +/* SPL works from internal RAM. gd pointer can be in .data section */
> >> +#define DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR     extern gd_t *gd
> >> +#else
> >>   #define DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR     register volatile gd_t *gd asm ("r8")
> >> +#endif
> >
> > Is this appropriate for all ARM boards (e.g. those currently using
> > nand_spl)?
> 
> None of the SPL's other than this one seems to be using global data
> today. If anybody wants to use it this seems to be the logical option
> for me because by definition SPL runs from some kind of RAM so global
> data can be placed in the .data section of SPL.

But that's not what you are doing.  You are not changing the storage
of the global data itself, you are changing the storage of the POINTER
TO the global data - and this makes no sense to me.  The pointer can
certainly remain in a register even if the data itself is somewhere
else.

This will save us this #ifdef here.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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