[U-Boot] [PATCHv2 1/2] mpc85xx: Initial SP alignment is wrong.

Joakim Tjernlund joakim.tjernlund at transmode.se
Wed Aug 15 09:05:43 CEST 2012


Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote on 2012/08/14 23:01:47:
>
> On 08/14/2012 03:55 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > Ping?
> >
> >>
> >> PowerPC mandates SP to be 16 bytes aligned.
> >> Furthermore, a stack frame is added, pointing to the reset vector
> >> which may in the way when gdb is walking the stack because
> >> the reset vector may not accessible depending on emulator settings.
> >> Also use a temp register so gdb doesn't pick up intermediate values.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>
> >> ---
> >>
> >>  v2 - Address Scott Wood's comments
> >>  arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/start.S |   16 +++++-----------
> >>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> Andy Fleming is the 85xx custodian, but you didn't CC him.

Oh, didn't notice that Andy was the custodian, there isn't
an entry in MAINTAINERS.

Andy, you think you can pick up
[PATCHv2 1/2] mpc85xx: Initial SP alignment is wrong.

 Jocke



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