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From: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [v3] arm: Fixed the offset for the no relocation.
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:57:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50462502.6050203@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50460A1B.9040102@gmail.com>

On 04/09/2012 16:03, Zhong Hongbo wrote:
> On 03/09/12 08:14, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Dear Zhong Hongbo,
>>
>>> From: Zhong Hongbo <bocui107@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> When the u-boot address of destination equal to  __start,
>>> no relocation. relocation offset(r9) = 0.
>>
>> Good, now what kind of issue does this patch fix?
> Hi Marek
> 
> When you adopt CONFIG_SPL_BUILD framework, no CONFIG_NAND_SPL, if the
> addr of destination is equal to _start, we should skip u-boot relocation.
> 
> In the last, u-boot will count the dest addr, see the below:
> 
> 
>         adr     r1, _start
>         add     lr, r0, r1
>         add     lr, lr, r9
> 
> Here, lr = lr + r9, r9 is the offset of u-boot, So when it do not neet
> to reolocat, we need to set the zero value for r9 register.
> 
>         /* setup parameters for board_init_r */
>         mov     r0, r5          /* gd_t */
>         mov     r1, r6          /* dest_addr */
>         /* jump to it ... */
>         mov     pc, lr

I can confirm this issue - I see this when I ported SPL to a MX35 board.
However, clearing r9 was not enough. I had to fix also _rel_dyn_* to
make SPL working, and I did changing the start.S in the same way start.S
for arv7 is built.

Do you not have these issues ?

Regards,
Stefano

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-04 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-02  6:49 [U-Boot] [v3] arm: Fixed the offset for the no relocation Zhong Hongbo
2012-09-02  6:52 ` Zhong Hongbo
2012-09-03  0:14 ` Marek Vasut
2012-09-04 14:03   ` Zhong Hongbo
2012-09-04 15:57     ` Stefano Babic [this message]
2012-09-05 14:45       ` Zhong Hongbo
2012-09-05 19:22         ` Stefano Babic
2012-09-06 15:36           ` Zhong Hongbo

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