[U-Boot] Resets on mx6qsabrelite

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Sep 25 06:19:35 CEST 2012


Dear Sinan Akman,

>    Hi Marek
> 
> On 09/24/2012 11:03 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > That's because these ancient (and crap ... everything between 4.2 and 4.6
> > was quite crap on arm) toolchains don't generate unaligned string starts
> > in .rodata . New toolchains do, yet I have no idea how to fix it ...
> > probably Albert might know?
> 
>    I just compiled with ELDK-5.2 toolchain :
> 
> U-Boot 2012.10-rc1 (Sep 24 2012 - 23:15:50)
> 
> arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 4.6.4 20120303 (prerelease)
> 
> GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22
> 
> I see no resets. So I am not sure if that
> means toolchains until including 4.6.4 has
> this bug.
> 
> Hope this helps.

It's not a bug, it's feature ... and it was introduced in 4.7* ;-)

[*] I believe Linaro does a lot of backports into their toolchain and other 
random crap, that's why I try to avoid their toolchains as much as possible.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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