On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Detlev Zundel, > > In message <m2r5wfzh0l....@ohwell.denx.de> you wrote: > > > > I also think that making our lifes easier is a very good thing. Our > > "it's only a bootloader" codebase is pretty complex already so I welcome > > making it more robust. I was kind of surprised the other day that > > null-pointer jumps(*) did not result in immediate "bad programmer, no > > cookie this time" messages but in random crashes. > > Well, what do you suggest? remember for example that booting a Linux > kernel means jumping to it's entry point address - which happens to > be 0 - or is this NULL ? How do you detemine the difference?
The MMU configuration that the OS wants on entry does not necessarily have to be the same one that the majority of U-Boot code runs with. -Scott _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
