From: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/mpc85xx: Don't relocate exception vectors
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:00:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55356908.7040907@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428456001-1938-1-git-send-email-scottwood@freescale.com>
On 04/07/2015 06:20 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> Booke does not require exception vectors to be located at address zero.
> U-Boot was doing so anyway, simply because that's how it had been done
> on other PPC. The downside of this is that once the OS is loaded to
> address zero, the exception vectors have been overwritten -- which
> makes it difficult to diagnose a crash that happens after that point.
>
> The IVOR setup and trap entry code is simplified somewhat as a result.
>
> Also, there is no longer a need to align individual exceptions on 0x100
> byte boundaries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> ---
Applied to mpc85xx master, awaiting upstream.
York
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-08 1:20 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/mpc85xx: Don't relocate exception vectors Scott Wood
2015-04-08 1:20 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mpc85xx: Remove some dead code Scott Wood
2015-04-20 21:01 ` York Sun
2015-04-20 21:00 ` York Sun [this message]
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