Hi Wolfgang,
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:53:15 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wd@denx.de wrote:
Dear Jeroen Hofstee,
In message 1376254719-15594-4-git-send-email-jeroen@myspectrum.nl you wrote:
To be more EABI compliant and as a preparation for building with clang, use the platform-specific r9 register for gd instead of r8.
note: The FIQ is not updated since it is not used in u-boot, and under discussion for the time being.
The following checkpatch warning is ignoredL WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
Signed-off-by: Jeroen Hofstee jeroen@myspectrum.nl
arch/arm/config.mk | 2 +- arch/arm/include/asm/global_data.h | 2 +- arch/arm/lib/crt0.S | 16 ++++++++-------- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
IIRC, r9 is used as GOT pointer ?
No, it is not, well, not any more since GOT-based relocation was replaced by ELF relocation, which requires no reserved register.
In any case, please also update the README section of register usage on ARM.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
Amicalement,