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I'm messing around with uboot and QEMU (qemu-system-arm -M realview-pbx-a9 -kernel u-boot.bin), things are going pretty well in the sense that I'm not having too much trouble reading most of the code and creating a new board. I have some questions that I can't figure out by reading the code. What is the CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE variable and how can I figure out what it should be?
I randomly set it to 0x0...then tried to debug u-boot under qemu, but when stepping in the start.S file it was instantly clear that it wasn't really working because gdb said the code ran right though the _start: b reset instruction and qemu eventually crashed with the following output: qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 0xfeb70cdc
R00=00000000 R01=ffff0000 R02=00000000 R03=000108ac R04=ffff0000 R05=ffbedf70 R06=ffff0000 R07=00000010 R08=00001000 R09=ffff0000 R10=000108ac R11=00000000 R12=00001078 R13=ffbedf60 R14=00000960 R15=feb70cdc PSR=600001d3 -ZC- A svc32 Aborted
Apart from that everything is pretty clear to me, but I want to make sure I'm getting this points right: Is the environment the set of variables that can be modified with setenv? How can I determine the "size of the environment"? Is it the number of characters including variable names?
Also, is there anything special I need to do with gdb to get it to follow relocating code?
thanks, -Chris