[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/9] arm: Set up global data before board_init_f()
Jeroen Hofstee
dasuboot at myspectrum.nl
Fri Jul 11 19:44:44 CEST 2014
Hello Simon,
On 11-07-14 06:23, Simon Glass wrote:
> At present arm defines CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_GLOBAL_DATA, meaning that
> the global_data pointer is set up in board_init_f(). However it is
> actually set up before this, it just isn't zeroed.
>
> If we zero the global data before calling board_init_f() then we
> don't need to define CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_GLOBAL_DATA.
>
> Make this change (on arm32 only) to simplify the init process. I
> don't have the ability to test aarch64 yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Fix assembler code comment in crt0.S to say GD, not BSS
> - Ensure that aarch64 stays as it was
> - Add newline after clr_gd label
> - Remove redundant mov r0, #0
>
> Changes in v2: None
>
> arch/arm/include/asm/config.h | 2 ++
> arch/arm/lib/crt0.S | 9 +++++++++
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
Looks good to me. I picked up this one instead
of my memset version.
Thanks, Jeroen
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