[PATCH] ARM: move exception vectors away from start of binary

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:17:12PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 10:23 Thu 05 Jan     , 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 as barebox images.
> > The header of the image can be customized using
> > CONFIG_ARM_CUSTOM_HEAD. If this is set the user must specify
> > a custom barebox_arm_head function in the text_entry section.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> Please hold on this one

Sorry, I accidently sent this. It's not part of the posted series.

Sascha


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