[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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