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

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote on 2012/08/23 18:53:14:
>
> On 08/23/2012 02:21 AM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > Andy Fleming <afleming at gmail.com> wrote on 2012/08/22 23:08:45:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Joakim Tjernlund
> >> <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se> 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(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/start.S arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/start.S
> >>
> >>
> >> Why are your patches different from everyone else's? When I try to
> >> apply this, I get errors because it can't find
> >> "powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx...". git am leaves off the first directory,
> >> because the usual practice is to send patches with these filenames:
> >
> > Ahh, recently I set (in ny git config):
> > [diff]
> >    noprefix = true
> > because I got tired off stripping off that prefix each time I cut and
> > paste file names into emacs and similar.
> >
> > Seems like git really likes to see that prefix when applying patches.
> > Don't know if git could learn not to complain about missing prefix?
>
> It's not just git, but also direct use of the patch command when a patch
> fails to apply cleanly.  A user shouldn't have to inspect a patch to
> determine whether to use -p0 or -p1.  -p1 is standard.

Right

>
> How often do you copy and paste filenames out of your own patches?
>