Hi all,

I have compiled the hello_world standalone API example documented at http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/UBootStandalone for the Freescale P4080DS development board.

For the standalone api example hello_world, the tutorial (linked above) states that the entry point of the application *is offset 4 bytes from the start of the file* (I.E. address 0x40004).

With all build settings at default, my standalone base address is 0x40000 (defined in arch/powerpc/config.mk). This produces the following object code:

00040000 <hello_world>: 40000: 94 21 ff e0 stwu r1,-32(r1) 40004: 7c 08 02 a6 mflr r0 40008: bf 61 00 0c stmw r27,12(r1) 4000c: 7c 7e 1b 78 mr r30,r3 40010: 7c 83 23 78 mr r3,r4 40014: 90 01 00 24 stw r0,36(r1)

It looks like the entry point is 0x40000. Why does the tutorial state that the example needs to be run from a 4 byte offset? In this case this will result in a failure to create a stack frame for hello_world.

Thanks!

Dave George

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