[U-Boot] [PATCH] doc: fix README.standalone

Jeroen Hofstee dasuboot at myspectrum.nl
Tue Oct 21 17:53:09 CEST 2014


Hello Masahiro,

On 21-10-14 17:41, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Since commit fe1378a961e5 (ARM: use r9 for gd), r9 register
> is used on ARM to hold global_data.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m at jp.panasonic.com>
> ---
>
>   doc/README.standalone | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/README.standalone b/doc/README.standalone
> index 2be5f27..e3000ef 100644
> --- a/doc/README.standalone
> +++ b/doc/README.standalone
> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Design Notes on Exporting U-Boot Functions to Standalone Applications:
>   2. The pointer to the jump table is passed to the application in a
>      machine-dependent way. PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, Blackfin and Nios II
>      architectures use a dedicated register to hold the pointer to the
> -   'global_data' structure: r2 on PowerPC, r8 on ARM, k0 on MIPS,
> +   'global_data' structure: r2 on PowerPC, r9 on ARM, k0 on MIPS,
>      P3 on Blackfin and gp on Nios II. The x86 architecture does not
>      use such a register; instead, the pointer to the 'global_data'
>      structure is passed as 'argv[-1]' pointer.

Acked-by: Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen at myspectrum.nl>

Thanks,
Jeroen


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