[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: fix missing exception handling

Christian Riesch christian.riesch at omicron.at
Wed Aug 20 09:21:14 CEST 2014


Benoît,

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Benoît Thébaudeau
<benoit.thebaudeau.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Commit 41623c9 'arm: move exception handling out of start.S files' missed some
> linker scripts. Hence, some boards no longer had exception handling linked since
> this commit. Restore the original behavior by adding the .vectors section to
> these linker scripts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <benoit.thebaudeau.dev at gmail.com>
> Cc: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net>

Does this really _fix_ exception handling for all of these boards (as
your message subject states) or just restore the state before commit
41623c9? I believe exception handling has never worked for most of
these boards, they don't use it. See the discussion in [1], in
particular [2] and [3].

Regards, Christian

[1] http://marc.info/?t=140247105400001&r=1&w=2
[2] http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=140309659906074&w=2
[3] http://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=140450616517545&w=2


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