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Date:      Tue, 01 May 2012 10:55:00 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        arm@freebsd.org, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
Subject:   Re: Request for Review:  improving Ubldr syscall linkage.
Message-ID:  <1335891300.1111.17.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <1E1891C5-3ACC-4C35-B966-D9B96424E245@bsdimp.com>
References:  <1BB6F5DA-36E9-471A-8926-F56275D90962@kientzle.com> <5FBCFC46-1DD9-4F29-8DD9-CB1E19D9BB21@gmail.com> <1E1891C5-3ACC-4C35-B966-D9B96424E245@bsdimp.com>

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On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 10:23 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On May 1, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Damjan Marion wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On May 1, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> >> 
> >> The only odd point:  The ARM reference I have lists blx
> >> only for ARMv6 and ARMv7 instruction sets … or am I
> >> misreading that somehow?
> > 
> > BX and BLX are supported since ARMv5 in ARM mode and since ARMv4 in THUMB mode so this will break some very old stuff like StrongARM which is ARMv4(non T).
> 
> Of the Atmel stuff, only the AT91RM9200 is ARM v4.  The rest is ARMv5.  I don't know that we support the callback to the bootloader for the Atmel port, but a lot of work went in for the AT91SAM stuff that might have snuck that kind of change in when I wasn't looking.
> 
> Warner

The rm9200 is ARMv4T so according to the ARM ARM it should be okay with
the BX and BLX instructions.

-- Ian





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