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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] ARM: use r9 for gd
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 16:44:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130812164406.5a6807e7@lilith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130812055315.DA080380DFA@gemini.denx.de>

Hi Wolfgang,

On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:53:15 +0200, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:

> Dear Jeroen Hofstee,
> 
> In message <1376254719-15594-4-git-send-email-jeroen@myspectrum.nl> you wrote:
> > To be more EABI compliant and as a preparation for building
> > with clang, use the platform-specific r9 register for gd
> > instead of r8.
> > 
> > note: The FIQ is not updated since it is not used in u-boot,
> > and under discussion for the time being.
> > 
> > The following checkpatch warning is ignoredL
> > WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see
> > Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jeroen Hofstee <jeroen@myspectrum.nl>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/config.mk                 |  2 +-
> >  arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h |  2 +-
> >  arch/arm/lib/crt0.S                | 16 ++++++++--------
> >  3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> IIRC, r9 is used as GOT pointer ?

No, it is not, well, not any more since GOT-based relocation was
replaced by ELF relocation, which requires no reserved register.

> In any case, please also update the README section of register usage
> on ARM.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 


Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-12 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-11 20:58 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] ARM: use r9 for gd instead of r8 Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-11 20:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] ARM: make reserving the gd register a make variable Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-11 20:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] ARM,relocate: do not use r9 Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-11 20:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] ARM: use r9 for gd Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-12  5:53   ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-08-12 14:44     ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2013-08-12 15:23       ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-08-13 19:41         ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-11 22:08 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] ARM: use r9 for gd instead of r8 Benoît Thébaudeau
2013-08-12  5:49   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-08-13 19:36   ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-14 18:25 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 0/4] " Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-14 18:25   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/4] ARM: make reserving the gd register a make variable Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-17 13:55     ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-09-19  6:57       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-09-19 16:54         ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-14 18:25   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/4] ARM,relocate: do not use r9 Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-14 18:25   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/4] ARM: use r9 for gd Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-17  9:40     ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-17 13:51       ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-19  3:08       ` Simon Glass
2013-08-19 17:32         ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-21 16:22           ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-08-21 23:44             ` Simon Glass
2013-08-14 18:25   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/4] README: update ARM register usage Jeroen Hofstee
2013-09-21 12:04 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/3] ARM: use r9 for gd instead of r8 Jeroen Hofstee
2013-09-21 12:04   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/3] ARM,relocate: do not use r9 Jeroen Hofstee
2013-09-21 12:04   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/3] ARM: use r9 for gd Jeroen Hofstee
2013-09-21 15:30     ` Jeroen Hofstee
2013-09-21 12:04   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 3/3] README: update ARM register usage Jeroen Hofstee
2013-09-23 16:56   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/3] ARM: use r9 for gd instead of r8 Albert ARIBAUD

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