Dear Steve, In message <53979199.5010...@broadcom.com> you wrote: > > OK - I think that one of the alternate proposals would be to > conditionally reserve a "32 byte block" prior to the _start symbol (in > "arch/arm/cpu/armv8/start.S") which would then be filled in by a > post-processing step... This could be implemented by:
Yes, that illustrates the idea. However, this implementation suffers from the use of an #ifdef where none is actually needed. Instead, you can create your own source file which defines the header; this could be then even in it's own segment, say: your_header.c: struct your_header { u_int32[8]; } your_header __attribute__ ((__section__ (".your_hdr"))); All that is needed then is to make the linker place this segment in front of the text segment. This avoids an ugly #ifdef, and also modifications in the common code. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Half of the people in the world are below average. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot