| Message ID | alpine.LFD.2.21.1904180757590.7572@localhost.localdomain |
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| State | Accepted |
| Commit | 9ad996adcc135bc34b185957567c8c46deb90d4f |
| Delegated to: | Tom Rini |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [U-Boot] doc: delete long-obsolete README.ARM-memory-map | expand |
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 08:00:48AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > As far back as 2011, "_armboot_start" was being described as "no > longer defined": > > commit 297f18ac0fbeef30ba1c17fe131ca75f09a6e7cf > Author: Greg Ungerer <greg.ungerer@opengear.com> > Date: Fri Sep 9 22:23:34 2011 +1000 > > CM4000: fix broken flash base for OpenGear boards > > Use _bss_start_ofs as the size of the boot loader code+data that we want > to protect in the flash. This replaces use of the no longer defined > _armboot_start. > > diff --git a/doc/README.ARM-memory-map b/doc/README.ARM-memory-map > deleted file mode 100644 > index 1b120ac3e1..0000000000 Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
diff --git a/doc/README.ARM-memory-map b/doc/README.ARM-memory-map deleted file mode 100644 index 1b120ac3e1..0000000000 --- a/doc/README.ARM-memory-map +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -Subject: Re: [PATCH][CFT] bring ARM memory layout in line with the documented behaviour -From: "Anders Larsen" <alarsen@rea.de> -Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:15:21 +0200 -To: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> - -... ->I still see references to _armboot_start, _armboot_end_data, and ->_armboot_end - which role do these play now? Can we get rid of them? -> ->How are they (should they be) set in your memory map above? - -_armboot_start contains the value of CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE (0xA07E0000); it seems -CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE and _armboot_start are both used for the same purpose in -different parts of the (ARM) code. -Furthermore, the startup code (cpu/<arm>/start.S) internally uses -another variable (_TEXT_BASE) with the same content as _armboot_start. -I agree that this mess should be cleaned up.