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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] previous two e-mails are RFC/demonstration!
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:24:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE04585.807@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE03BA0.7010800@emk-elektronik.de>

Le 14/11/2010 20:42, Reinhard Meyer a ?crit :

> 1. I am quite sure that in arm/lib/board.c
> __asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory");
> was never needed and definitely is not needed anymore.
> Can anyone shed some light on why this was added?
> Probably just copied from other architectures where some trickery
> around gd was done?

This kind of barrier is needed when the compiler might reorder code 
without seeing a dependency (I met such a case in the Marvell egiga 
driver code). Here, I don't see the reason offhand.

> 4. start.S need just set the SP to CONFIG_SYS_INIT_SP_ADDR,
> if one wants to be over-cautious extra alignment *can* be done.

Currently start.S sets the stack twice, once before calling 
board_init_f, and once in relocate_code. Are you suggesting we remove 
the second sp setting?

> Best Regards,
> Reinhard


Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-14 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-14 16:00 [U-Boot] previous two e-mails are RFC/demonstration! Reinhard Meyer
2010-11-14 16:23 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-11-14 19:42   ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-11-14 20:24     ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2010-11-14 20:33       ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-11-14 20:44       ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-11-14 20:59         ` Reinhard Meyer

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