[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Make MPC83xx one step closer to full relocation.

Wolfgang Denk
2008-04-08T21:09:20Z

In message <044901c899ba$83532450$89f96cf0$@Tjernlund@transmode.se> you wrote:
>
> > > .text :
> > > {
> > > + _monitor_base = . ;
> >
> > There is no guarantee that this is the same as the start address of
> > .text
> >
>
> I am no link script expert, but I cannot see why that would not be the start
> of the .text segment?

There might be other segments at the start of the image...

See for example cpu/mpc8xx/start.S - while at the moment we really
start with .text, it would technically be more approrpriate to change
the first 256 bytes (from monitor base to EXC_OFF_SYS_RESET) into
.rodata or something like this.

> Anyhow, we can go with the other solution instead, define the symbol in start.S
> instead, if one is needed.

If it cannot be avoided ;-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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