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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@kymetacorp.com>
Cc: barebox <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: Remove do_execute and thumb2_execute
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 10:45:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151207094504.GD11966@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449257064.26955.20.camel@rtred1test09.kymeta.local>

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 07:24:19PM +0000, Trent Piepho wrote:
> In commit 104a6a7ccfb7928ca5dc28c8cbe0ea231ffc45ee support was added
> for Thumb2.  It added do_execute() as a way to provide arch dependent
> calling veneers for use in "go" and thumb2_execute() as the thumb2 to
> arm veneer.
> 
> But thumb2_execute() isn't necessary as gcc generates a proper calling
> sequence from a standard function pointer call.  Thumb2 barebox is
> compiled with the AAPCS ABI which requires this.
> 
> It also had a bug and didn't pass the arguments properly, but code
> execute via "go" rarely uses arguments so this wasn't very noticeable.
> 
> Since thumb2 was always the only user of do_execute(), go ahead and
> delete that too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@kymetacorp.com>

Applied, thanks

Sascha


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2015-12-04 19:24 Trent Piepho
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