[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/4] arm: factorize relocate_code routine
Albert ARIBAUD
albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Thu May 16 16:29:49 CEST 2013
Hi Benoît,
On Wed, 15 May 2013 19:55:31 +0200, Albert ARIBAUD
<albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> Hi Benoît,
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2013 18:36:05 +0200 (CEST), Benoît Thébaudeau
> <benoit.thebaudeau at advansee.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Albert,
> >
> > On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:30:00 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > > On Wed, 15 May 2013 09:31:37 +0200, Albert ARIBAUD
> > > <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Then I should add =relocate_code to r3, not =_start, and also -- as r9
> > > > is not the right offset here -- compute r7 as the delta between the
> > > > link-time =_start and the run-time relocate_code (r7 becomes useless
> > > > once R10, r2 and r3 are fixed).
> > >
> > > I badly need a coffee break... Make this "r7 equal to =relocate_code",
> > > simply.
> >
> > Or "adr r7, relocate_code" for the same result in order to avoid using the
> > literal pool when useless.
>
> Correct. That'll be in v3.
Sorry, I missed this change in V3 and left the ldr. Functionally it
does not have any impact, since as already mentioned, this code always
runs at the link-time location. You may want Want me to fix it anyway?
Amicalement,
--
Albert.
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