Am 09.11.2018 um 19:43 schrieb Tom Rini:
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 05:22:41AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
There is a strange feature to set global_data to a data-section variable early in SPL. This only works if SPL actually has access to SRAM which is not the case on x86, for eaxmple. Add a comment to this effect.
Seems like I missed that one back in October.
Does anyone have an idea why this variable ('static bd_t bdata') is hard-coded into section ".data"? To me this seems pretty unportable...
For example, for a specific feature on socfpga (warm reboot CRC check), I would prefer to have the ".data" section empty and put 'bdata' into bss. This is currently not possible.
But before sending a patch that somehow changes this behaviour, I'd like to know why this variable is put into ".data" instead of ".bss"
Thanks, Simon
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini trini@konsulko.com