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wdenka8c7c702003-12-06 19:49:23 +00001Subject: Re: [PATCH][CFT] bring ARM memory layout in line with the documented behaviour
2From: "Anders Larsen" <alarsen@rea.de>
3Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:15:21 +0200
4To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
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7>I still see references to _armboot_start, _armboot_end_data, and
8>_armboot_end - which role do these play now? Can we get rid of them?
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10>How are they (should they be) set in your memory map above?
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Wolfgang Denk14d0a022010-10-07 21:51:12 +020012_armboot_start contains the value of CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE (0xA07E0000); it seems
13CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE and _armboot_start are both used for the same purpose in
wdenka8c7c702003-12-06 19:49:23 +000014different parts of the (ARM) code.
15Furthermore, the startup code (cpu/<arm>/start.S) internally uses
16another variable (_TEXT_BASE) with the same content as _armboot_start.
17I agree that this mess should be cleaned up.