[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mpc85xx: Remove some dead code
York Sun
yorksun at freescale.com
Mon Apr 20 23:01:20 CEST 2015
On 04/07/2015 06:20 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> U-Boot does not have system calls (the services it exposes to
> standalone commands use a different mechanism), so the syscall handler
> is dead code. It's also broken code, as it assumes it is located at
> 0xc00 -- while even before the patch to stop relocating exception
> vectors to 0, U-Boot had the syscall at 0x900.
>
> The critical and machine check return paths are never called -- the
> regular exception return path is used instead, which works because
> xSRR0/1 have already been saved and can be restored via the regular
> SRR0/1 (we don't care too much in U-Boot about taking a critical/mcheck
> inside another exception prolog/epilog).
>
> Also remove a few other small unused functions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> ---
Applied to mpc85xx master, awaiting upstream.
York
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