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From: York Sun <yorksun@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mpc85xx: Remove some dead code
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:01:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55356920.2020702@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1428456001-1938-2-git-send-email-scottwood@freescale.com>



On 04/07/2015 06:20 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> U-Boot does not have system calls (the services it exposes to
> standalone commands use a different mechanism), so the syscall handler
> is dead code.  It's also broken code, as it assumes it is located at
> 0xc00 -- while even before the patch to stop relocating exception
> vectors to 0, U-Boot had the syscall at 0x900.
> 
> The critical and machine check return paths are never called -- the
> regular exception return path is used instead, which works because
> xSRR0/1 have already been saved and can be restored via the regular
> SRR0/1 (we don't care too much in U-Boot about taking a critical/mcheck
> inside another exception prolog/epilog).
> 
> Also remove a few other small unused functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
> ---

Applied to mpc85xx master, awaiting upstream.

York

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-20 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-08  1:20 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/mpc85xx: Don't relocate exception vectors Scott Wood
2015-04-08  1:20 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mpc85xx: Remove some dead code Scott Wood
2015-04-20 21:01   ` York Sun [this message]
2015-04-20 21:00 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/mpc85xx: Don't relocate exception vectors York Sun

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