[PATCH 7/7] microblaze: exception: drop user exception support
Michal Simek
monstr at monstr.eu
Tue Feb 15 13:16:44 CET 2022
On 2/13/22 09:09, Ovidiu Panait wrote:
> A user exception is triggered by inserting a bralid/brki jump to
> "C_BASE_VECTORS+0x8" in the software flow. Because u-boot microblaze code
> does not deal with MMU-related features such as user-mode/privileged-mode
> separation, there are no code sequences that call into the user exception
> handler.
>
> It seems there is no real usecase for having user exception support in
> u-boot, so drop the code that installs the nop handler.
U-Boot still supports to run user code on the top of u-boot which doesn't need
to handle these kind of exceptions. That's why it is good to jump to this code
and let you know about it.
M
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