[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: Add support for edb93xx boards

[Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>]

hi,

El Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:33:18PM +0100 Wolfgang Denk ha dit:

> After relocation we have a full-blown, "normal" C runtime environment.
> Before that, you can use C as well, if you mind the restrictions (like
> data and bss not being available/writable yet, no real stack, etc.).

as suggested i reimplemented the flash, pll and sdram initialization
in C, what is working so far.

now i am trying to reimplement the lowlevel_init() function in C. this
seems to be an easy task, but gcc insists to use the stack, which
isn't set up at this point

the C implementation is:

void lowlevel_init(void)
{
        red_LED_on();
        green_LED_on();

        /* Configure flash wait states before we switch to the PLL */
        flash_cfg();

        /* Set up PLL */
        pll_cfg();

        green_LED_off();

        /* Setup SDRAM */
        sdram_cfg();

        green_LED_on();
        red_LED_off();

        /* FIXME: we use async mode for now */
        __asm__ __volatile__("mrc p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0\n"
                        "orr r0, r0, #0xc0000000\n"
                        "mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0");
}

which results in the following machine/assembly code:

c1f01094 <lowlevel_init>:
c1f01094:       e52de004        push    {lr}            ; (str lr,
[sp, #-4]!)
c1f01098:       e24dd004        sub     sp, sp, #4      ; 0x4
c1f0109c:       ebffffe4        bl      c1f01034 <red_LED_on>
c1f010a0:       ebffffef        bl      c1f01064 <green_LED_on>
c1f010a4:       eb00483d        bl      c1f131a0 <flash_cfg>
c1f010a8:       eb004842        bl      c1f131b8 <pll_cfg>
c1f010ac:       ebfffff2        bl      c1f0107c <green_LED_off>
c1f010b0:       eb004852        bl      c1f13200 <sdram_cfg>
c1f010b4:       ebffffea        bl      c1f01064 <green_LED_on>
c1f010b8:       ebffffe3        bl      c1f0104c <red_LED_off>
c1f010bc:       ee110f10        mrc     15, 0, r0, cr1, cr0, {0}
c1f010c0:       e3800103        orr     r0, r0, #-1073741824    ;
0xc0000000
c1f010c4:       ee010f10        mcr     15, 0, r0, cr1, cr0, {0}
c1f010c8:       e28dd004        add     sp, sp, #4      ; 0x4
c1f010cc:       e8bd8000        pop     {pc}

is there a way to convince the compiler not to use the stack, or is it
for some reason impossible to translate this routine to C without
having a stack?

kind regards

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Matthias Kaehlcke
Embedded Linux Developer
Barcelona


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