Re: [U-Boot] [PATCHv2 1/2] mpc85xx: Initial SP alignment is wrong.

Kumar Gala galak@kernel.crashing.org wrote on 2012/08/14 23:28:45:

On Jul 23, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

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PowerPC mandates SP to be 16 bytes aligned. Furthermore, a stack frame is added, pointing to the reset vector which may in the way when gdb is walking the stack because the reset vector may not accessible depending on emulator settings. Also use a temp register so gdb doesn't pick up intermediate values.

Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se

v2 - Address Scott Wood's comments arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/start.S | 16 +++++----------- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Kumar Gala galak@kernel.crashing.org

Thanks Kumar

Will you pick up? [PATCHv2 2/2] powerpc: Stack Pointer not properly aligned

It is not 85xx specific but for all PowerPC

Jocke