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From: Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] arm: use $loadaddr as the standalone entry point
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:21:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1502572898.17070.11.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170812182951.D4D52120203@gemini.denx.de>

Dear Wolfgang

Am Samstag, den 12.08.2017, 20:29 +0200 schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
> Dear Max,
> 
> In message <20170812090346.7887-2-max.krummenacher@toradex.com> you wrote:
> > 
> > Different SoCs have different RAM layouts, so providing
> > $(CONFIG_LOADADDR) instead of the constant 0xc100000 for
> > CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR is probably more appropriate.
> 
> At least the wording of the Subject should be fixed.

Ok, will do. The issue is that linking the standalone application
to have its text segment at a hardcoded address is less
likely to work than using an address provided by the board
configuration as a possible load address.

Will reword the commit message in a v2 series accordingly.

Max

> 
> It is fundamentaaly broken to associate the names "loadaddr" and
> "entry point" with each other.  Both are completely independent
> entities which mean totally different things. It is pure chance if
> the entry point of some loaded image should be at the very beginning
> of this image, but this is almost never the case.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-12 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-12  9:03 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] improve hello_world standalone application for arm Max Krummenacher
2017-08-12  9:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] arm: use $loadaddr as the standalone entry point Max Krummenacher
2017-08-12 18:29   ` Wolfgang Denk
2017-08-12 21:21     ` Max Krummenacher [this message]
2017-08-14 19:36       ` Wolfgang Denk
2017-08-14 21:13         ` Tom Rini
2017-08-15  7:32           ` Wolfgang Denk
2017-08-15 11:39             ` Tom Rini
2017-08-15 12:22               ` Max Krummenacher
2017-08-15 13:31                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2017-08-15 13:21               ` Wolfgang Denk
2017-08-19  1:35                 ` Tom Rini
2017-08-12  9:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] hello_world.c: fix entry point in case of arm thumb binary Max Krummenacher
2017-08-12 18:39   ` Wolfgang Denk
2017-08-12 21:31     ` Max Krummenacher
2017-08-14 19:46       ` Wolfgang Denk
2017-08-14 21:15   ` Tom Rini
2017-08-15 12:24     ` Max Krummenacher
2017-08-12 18:32 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] improve hello_world standalone application for arm Wolfgang Denk
2017-08-12 21:21   ` Max Krummenacher

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