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

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Wed Aug 15 19:13:31 CEST 2012


On 08/15/2012 02:10 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote on 2012/08/14 23:28:45:
>>
>>
>> On Jul 23, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>>
>>> 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(-)
>>
>> Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> 
> Thanks Kumar
> 
> Will you pick up?
>  [PATCHv2 2/2] powerpc: Stack Pointer not properly aligned
> 
> It is not 85xx specific but for all PowerPC

I don't think Kumar has a U-Boot tree to pull it into.  There's no
general PPC custodian.  Probably both patches should go via Andy.

-Scott




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