Use the base address of the 'F' segment as a pointer to the global data
structure. By adding the linear address (i.e. the 'D' segment address) as
the first word of the global data structure, the address of the global data
relative to the 'D' segment can be found simply, for example, by:
fs movl 0, %eax
This makes the gd 'pointer' writable prior to relocation (by reloading the
Global Desctriptor Table) which brings x86 into line with all other arches
NOTE: Writing to the gd 'pointer' is expensive (but we only do it
twice) but using it to access global data members (read and write) is
still fairly cheap
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Changes for v2:
- Rebased against changes made to patch #3
- Removed extra indent
- Tweaked commit message
There was a mix of UTF-8 and ISO-8859 files in the U-Boot source
tree, which could cause issues with the patchwork review system.
This commit converts all ISO-8859 files to UTF-8.
Signed-off-by: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
This helps to clean up the include/ directory so that it only contains
non-architecture-specific headers and also matches Linux's directory
layout which many U-Boot developers are already familiar with.
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
- remove trailing white space, trailing empty lines, C++ comments, etc.
- split cmd_boot.c (separate cmd_bdinfo.c and cmd_load.c)
* Patches by Kenneth Johansson, 25 Jun 2003:
- major rework of command structure
(work done mostly by Michal Cendrowski and Joakim Kristiansen)
Fixes for x86 port (mostly strings issues)
* Patch by Ken Chou, 18 Nov 2002:
Fix for natsemi NIC cards (DP83815)
* Patch by Pierre Aubert, 19 Nov 2002:
fix a bug for the MII configuration, and some warnings
Add support for i386 architecture and AMD SC520 board
* Patch by Pierre Aubert, 12 Nov 2002:
Add support for DOS filesystem and booting from DOS floppy disk
Graeme Russ
Albert ARIBAUD
Peter Tyser
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