public inbox for u-boot@lists.denx.de
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] what/where is image_entry()
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:04:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161124110448.4cb3ad5d@crub> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479861891670.32641@edt.com>

On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 00:44:51 +0000
Haleigh Novak haleigh at edt.com wrote:
...
> Please forgive the uber-beginner question but I can not find anything related online,
> I have been digging around in the uboot source and I stumbled on the image_entry()
> function; sometimes it has parameters and sometimes it does not. I am unable to 
> locate the source(s) of the function, so I can not see how it works. Could someone
> explain what image_entry() actually does or at least point me to where it is defined?

it starts execution of the first code in the U-Boot image at address
defined with CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE. What it actually does is platform
dependent. Compile the image for your target and then search for this
address the System.map file. On ARM there will be a _start label for
this address, it is usually some code in assembly file (branch
instruction at reset vector).

--
Anatolij

      reply	other threads:[~2016-11-24 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-23  0:44 [U-Boot] what/where is image_entry() Haleigh Novak
2016-11-24 10:04 ` Anatolij Gustschin [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20161124110448.4cb3ad5d@crub \
    --to=agust@denx.de \
    --cc=u-boot@lists.denx.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox