[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/8] dm: x86: Zero global data before board_init_f()

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Oct 10 15:49:15 CEST 2014


To permit information to be passed from the early U-Boot code to
board_init_f() we cannot zero the global_data in board_init_f(). Instead
zero it in the start-up code.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

 arch/x86/cpu/start.S | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/cpu/start.S b/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
index 329bb3a..71cab22 100644
--- a/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
+++ b/arch/x86/cpu/start.S
@@ -85,6 +85,12 @@ car_init_ret:
 	/* Align global data to 16-byte boundary */
 	andl	$0xfffffff0, %esp
 
+	/* Zero the global data since it won't happen later */
+	xorl	%eax, %eax
+	movl	$GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE, %ecx
+	movl	%esp, %edi
+	rep	stosb
+
 	/* Setup first parameter to setup_gdt */
 	movl	%esp, %eax
 
-- 
2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5



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