On 12/11/10 19:50, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Reinhard Meyer, > > In message <4cdce769.8080...@emk-elektronik.de> you wrote: >> >> Is bootflag ever used? If not, why not change the parameter to >> give the gd address to board_init_f? > > No, bootflag is never used and could / should be removed. > > Passing gd as parameter makes no sense, thoug, as it's global data and > we reserve a register to store it's address, so it can always be used > with minimal overhead.
Which is a really nice idea if you have a register to spare. Unfortunately, x86 does not have this luxury, and the only way I can get gd (and as a consequence upper memory bound for relocation) is to allocate it in assembler and pass to C as a function argument Regards, Graeme _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
