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From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:48:06 +0000
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] arc: make sure _start is in the beginning of
 .text section
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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