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From: tony@bakeyournoodle•com (Tony Breeds)
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Don't pass the stack pointer to zImage's start() function
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:35:46 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070315043546.GE12768@bakeyournoodle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070315042904.GE14061@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 03:29:04PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> At present, the zImage entry code passes a copy of the stack pointer
> to the start() function.  There's no real reason for this; the only
> thing start() does with it is print it out.  It appears to be a
> leftover debugging hack, so, this patch removes it.

<snip>

> --- working-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c	2007-03-15 14:03:09.000000000 +1100
> +++ working-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/main.c	2007-03-15 14:07:05.000000000 +1100
> @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ struct dt_ops dt_ops;
>  struct console_ops console_ops;
>  struct loader_info loader_info;
>  
> -void start(void *sp)
> +void start(void)
>  {
>  	struct addr_range vmlinux, initrd;
>  	kernel_entry_t kentry;
> @@ -268,8 +268,7 @@ void start(void *sp)
>  	if (platform_ops.fixups)
>  		platform_ops.fixups();
>  
> -	printf("\n\rzImage starting: loaded at 0x%p (sp: 0x%p)\n\r",
> -	       _start, sp);
> +	printf("\n\rzImage starting: loaded at 0x%p (sp: 0x%p)\n\r", _start);

Shouldn't that be:

+	printf("\n\rzImage starting: loaded at 0x%p\n\r", _start);

or similar?

Yours Tony

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-15  4:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-15  4:29 Don't pass the stack pointer to zImage's start() function David Gibson
2007-03-15  4:35 ` Tony Breeds [this message]
2007-03-15  5:18   ` David Gibson
2007-03-16 18:37 ` Olaf Hering
2007-03-16 19:26   ` Josh Boyer
2007-03-16 20:04     ` Olaf Hering

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