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From: Wolfgang Wegner <wolfgang@leila.ping.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] FPGA relocation/C environment
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:44:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091029154455.GJ3216@leila.ping.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091029150004.GI3216@leila.ping.de>

Hi,

although I have to leave for now, just some questions to see if
there is anything I understood correctly until now...

- in the PPC startup (assembly) files, the section .got2 is explicitely
  created using START_GOT etc.
- .got2 contains some vital pointers (vectors) as well as data
  pointers like a pointer to .fixup and a pointer to itself (?!)
- the ppc linker automatically puts .data.rel (and other relocatable
  sections?) into .fixup (which seems not the case with my m68k linker)
- the ppc startup code uses some obfuscated assembly code ;-) to
  relocate both the global relocation table (.got) as well as the
  sections .got2 and .fixup (.got seems to be implicitly mentioned:
  "/* First our own GOT */
	add	r14, r14, r15
	/* then the one used by the C code */
	add	r30, r30, r15"
  but I can not see where it is actually relocated...)

Is this correct so far? I am not sure because it seems more complicated
than necessary to me (especially the algorithm to relocate .got2 and
.fixup - or is this all about the possibility to do multiple relocations?),
so maybe I still have a misunderstanding here. Furthermore, the special
handling of r14 (-ffixed-r14 in config.mk) still puzzles me.

Thank you and best regards,
Wolfgang

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-29 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-29  8:21 [U-Boot] FPGA relocation/C environment Wolfgang Wegner
2009-10-29 11:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-10-29 12:04   ` Wolfgang Wegner
2009-10-29 13:08   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-29 13:41     ` Wolfgang Wegner
2009-10-29 14:22       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-29 15:00         ` Wolfgang Wegner
2009-10-29 15:44           ` Wolfgang Wegner [this message]
2009-10-29 16:39             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2009-10-30 13:11               ` Wolfgang Wegner
2009-10-30 23:16                 ` Graeme Russ
2009-10-29 15:47           ` Joakim Tjernlund

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