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author | Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2008-02-04 19:26:54 -0500 |
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committer | Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2008-02-04 19:26:54 -0500 |
commit | 4c58eb5552220e425c8af6ac8d2839244a2f57b1 (patch) | |
tree | 4c98c4e1f2511d3f15c88e439c3af4e2991e1de4 /doc/README.standalone | |
parent | 32a9f5f2160a034ea87ea651b233ef7c635e55cf (diff) | |
download | u-boot-4c58eb5552220e425c8af6ac8d2839244a2f57b1.tar.gz |
add some more Blackfin docs
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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diff --git a/doc/README.standalone b/doc/README.standalone index 39988317ee..3495f54f58 100644 --- a/doc/README.standalone +++ b/doc/README.standalone @@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ Design Notes on Exporting U-Boot Functions to Standalone Applications: thus the compiler cannot perform type checks on these assignments. 2. The pointer to the jump table is passed to the application in a - machine-dependent way. PowerPC, ARM and MIPS architectures use a - dedicated register to hold the pointer to the 'global_data' - structure: r29 on PowerPC, r8 on ARM and k0 on MIPS. The x86 - architecture does not use such a register; instead, the pointer to - the 'global_data' structure is passed as 'argv[-1]' pointer. + machine-dependent way. PowerPC, ARM, MIPS and Blackfin architectures + use a dedicated register to hold the pointer to the 'global_data' + structure: r29 on PowerPC, r8 on ARM, k0 on MIPS, and P5 on Blackfin. + The x86 architecture does not use such a register; instead, the pointer + to the 'global_data' structure is passed as 'argv[-1]' pointer. The application can access the 'global_data' structure in the same way as U-Boot does: @@ -49,11 +49,12 @@ Design Notes on Exporting U-Boot Functions to Standalone Applications: 4. The default load and start addresses of the applications are as follows: - Load address Start address - x86 0x00040000 0x00040000 - PowerPC 0x00040000 0x00040004 - ARM 0x0c100000 0x0c100000 - MIPS 0x80200000 0x80200000 + Load address Start address + x86 0x00040000 0x00040000 + PowerPC 0x00040000 0x00040004 + ARM 0x0c100000 0x0c100000 + MIPS 0x80200000 0x80200000 + Blackfin 0x00001000 0x00001000 For example, the "hello world" application may be loaded and executed on a PowerPC board with the following commands: |