From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/start.S: comment makes little sense
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:51:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011230651.11733.sr@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101121191701.DFCF1678@gemini.denx.de>
Hi Wolfgang,
On Sunday 21 November 2010 20:17:01 Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> I think this comment in arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/start.S needs a bit of
> cleanup:
>
> 51 /* U-Boot - Startup Code for AMCC 4xx PowerPC based Embedded Boards
> 52 *
> 53 *
> 54 * The processor starts at 0xfffffffc and the code is executed
> 55 * from flash/rom.
> 56 * in memory, but as long we don't jump around before relocating.
> 57 * board_init lies at a quite high address and when the cpu has
> 58 * jumped there, everything is ok.
> 59 * This works because the cpu gives the FLASH (CS0) the whole
> 60 * address space at startup, and board_init lies as a echo of
> 61 * the flash somewhere up there in the memorymap.
> 62 *
> 63 * board_init will change CS0 to be positioned at the correct
> 64 * address and (s)dram will be positioned at address 0
> 65 */
>
> All this makes pretty little sense to me.
Agreed. I'll try to get a better description out soon.
Cheers,
Stefan
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2010-11-21 19:17 [U-Boot] arch/powerpc/cpu/ppc4xx/start.S: comment makes little sense Wolfgang Denk
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