[PATCH 1/3] ARM: align exception vectors to 32 byte

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Mar 2 00:08:39 PST 2017


Hello Lucas,

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 03:26:39PM +0100, Lucas Stach wrote:
> On ARMv7 the exception vectors inside the barebox binary are used directly
> by remapping the vectors base through the VBAR register. While VBAR allows
> to remap the exception vectors freely, it still imposes a minimum alignment
> of 32 byte, as the lower bits are treated as the exception vector offset.
> Enforce this alignment inside the barebox binary.

maybe put a part of this into a comment?

Best regards
Uwe

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