[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/mpc85xx: Don't relocate exception vectors

York Sun yorksun at freescale.com
Mon Apr 20 23:00:56 CEST 2015



On 04/07/2015 06:20 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> Booke does not require exception vectors to be located at address zero.
> U-Boot was doing so anyway, simply because that's how it had been done
> on other PPC.  The downside of this is that once the OS is loaded to
> address zero, the exception vectors have been overwritten -- which
> makes it difficult to diagnose a crash that happens after that point.
> 
> The IVOR setup and trap entry code is simplified somewhat as a result.
> 
> Also, there is no longer a need to align individual exceptions on 0x100
> byte boundaries.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> ---

Applied to mpc85xx master, awaiting upstream.

York


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