[U-Boot] [PATCH 12/12] imx: ventana: switch to SPL

[Jeroen Hofstee]

Hi,

On wo, 2014-05-07 at 09:14 -0700, York Sun wrote:

> <snip>
> >>
> >> Since Crt0.S already created gd on the stack before calling
> >> board_init_f, can't the assignment of gd not simply be removed?
> >> Is there anything special about gdata?
> > 
> > That does make sense, but what I find is that York's ocmmit
> > dec1861be90c948ea9fb771927d3d26a994d2e20 requires that gd be blanked
> > and its not. This causes bus_i2c_init to skip its initialization
> > because p->base is not zero.
> > 
> > York, does this make sense? Your patch creates a dependence on
> > gd->srdata being blank which isn't the case with the SRAM when booting
> > from the IMX6 boot rom.
> > 
> 
> GD should be cleared (zeroed). Then we don't have this problem. Whoever sets up
> gd (board_int_f, cpu_init_f, or others) should make sure gd is cleared. Why
> isn't it the case for IMX6 boot rom?
> 

Seems fine to me. Albert, any objection against zeroing gd out in
crt0.S?

And if not, shouldn't the same be done for arm64.

Jeroen