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From: Peter Belm <peterbelm@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:46:08 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] Mips: start.S Questions
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>
> It seems to me that you may still be missing the point that a "b reset"
> is an unconditional jump, not a call, i.e. we will never return to the
> next instruction.  A call would be a "bal reset", i.e. "branch and link"
> which puts the address of the next instruction into the $ra register.
> One would return with "jr $ra".
>

Yes, you're right, sorry. I wasn't thinking that through very far, now I
know that is just goes to reset I'm continuing on.

I've done a fair bit of work with MIPS, so when it comes to instructions I'm
actually fairly well versed (when I'm paying attention anyway!)

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Peter Belm