From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] arc: make sure _start is in the beginning of .text section
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:48:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1428680886.5325.6.camel@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428680800-5230-1-git-send-email-abrodkin@synopsys.com>
On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 18:46 +0300, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> This is important to have entry point in the beginning of .text section
> because it allows simple loading and execution of U-Boot.
>
> For example pre-bootloader loads U-Boot in memory starting from offset
> 0x81000000 and then just jumps to the same address.
>
> Otherwise pre-bootloader would need to find-out where entry-point is. In
> its turn if it deals with binary image of U-Boot there's no way for
> pre-bootloader to get required value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
Applied, thanks.
-Alexey
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2015-04-10 15:46 [U-Boot] [PATCH] arc: make sure _start is in the beginning of .text section Alexey Brodkin
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