[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm1136: timer: Replace bss variable by gd

Wolfgang Denk
2010-12-17T20:13:04Z

Dear Albert & Heiko,

In message <4D01E031.3090100@free.fr> you wrote:
>
> > Reuse the gd->tbl value for timestamp and add gd->lastinc for lastinc bss
> > values in the arm1136 timer driver for mx31 and omap24xx
> >
> > The usage of bss values in drivers before initialisation of bss is forbid> den.
> > In that special case some data in .rel.dyn gets corrupted.
> >
> > This patch is similiar to the patch Dirk Behme posted
> > for the armv7/omap-common/timer.c
> >
> > Tested on the mx31 based qong board
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher<hs@denx.de>
> > cc: Albert ARIBAUD<albert.aribaud@free.fr>
>
> FWIW,
>
> Acked-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud@free.fr>

Should I pull this into v2010.12, or should we rather wait for amore
general solution and fix it in the next release?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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