Hi On 3 September 2014 23:32, Benoît Thébaudeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Some boards, like mx31pdk and tx25, require the beginning of the SPL > code to be position-independent. For these two boards, this is because > they use the i.MX external NAND boot, which starts by executing the > first NAND Flash page from the NFC page buffer. The SPL then needs to > copy itself to its actual link address in order to free the NFC page > buffer and use it to load the non-SPL image from Flash before running > it. This means that the SPL runtime address differs from its link > address between the reset and the initial copy performed by > board_init_f(), so this part of the SPL binary must be > position-independent. > > This requirement was broken by commit 41623c9 'arm: move exception > handling out of start.S files', which used an absolute address to branch > to the reset routine. This new commit restores the original behavior, > which just performed a relative branch. This fixes the boot of mx31pdk > and tx25. > > Signed-off-by: Benoît Thébaudeau <[email protected]> > Reported-by: Helmut Raiger <[email protected]> > Cc: Albert Aribaud <[email protected]> > Cc: Magnus Lilja <[email protected]> > Cc: John Rigby <[email protected]> > ---
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