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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > Please hold on this one Sorry, I accidently sent this. It's not part of the posted series. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
