[PATCH 7/9] ARM: move exception vectors away from start of binary
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Tue Dec 20 09:07:45 EST 2011
On 15:52 Sat 17 Dec , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Traditionally U-Boot and barebox have the exception vectors at
> the start of the binary. There is no real reason in doing so,
> because in the majority of cases this data will not be at 0x0
> where it could be used as vectors directly anyway.
> This patch puts the vectors into a separate linker section and
> defines an head function which is placed at the start of the
> image instead. Putting this in a separate function also has
> the advantage that it can be placed at the start of images
> which require an additional header like several Freescale i.MX
> images. As the head function contains the barebox arm magic
> those images can now also be detected aas barebox images.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> arch/arm/boards/eukrea_cpuimx25/eukrea_cpuimx25.c | 3 ++-
> arch/arm/boards/eukrea_cpuimx35/flash_header.c | 3 ++-
> arch/arm/boards/eukrea_cpuimx51/flash_header.c | 3 ++-
> arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx25-3-stack/3stack.c | 3 ++-
> .../boards/freescale-mx35-3-stack/flash_header.c | 3 ++-
> arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx51-pdk/flash_header.c | 3 ++-
> arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx53-loco/flash_header.c | 3 ++-
> arch/arm/boards/freescale-mx53-smd/flash_header.c | 3 ++-
> arch/arm/cpu/mmu.c | 4 ++--
> arch/arm/cpu/start.c | 14 +++++++-------
> arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm-head.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm.h | 2 ++
> arch/arm/lib/barebox.lds.S | 5 ++++-
> 13 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/barebox-arm-head.h
you need to update the rm9200 too
Best Regards,
J.
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