[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] improve hello_world standalone application for arm

Max Krummenacher max.oss.09 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 12 21:21:44 UTC 2017


Dear Wolfgang

Am Samstag, den 12.08.2017, 20:32 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
> Dear Max,
> 
> In message <20170812090346.7887-1-max.krummenacher at toradex.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > This series addresses
> > - hardcoded entry address, use LOADADDR if available as the entry point instead
> 
> I'm not sure which sort of problem you are trying to fix, but what
> you describe here is inherently broken.
> 
> The entry point of an image is almost never ever at the beginning of
> an image.

I was mislead by the table in point 6. of doc/README.standalone that it
is a design decision that the entry point is whatever is linked to the
beginning of the text segment. Thus the sloppy use of entry point and
load address.

Max
> 
> Naked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> 
> Sorry!
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 


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