[PATCH 9/13] ppc64 boot: use memset to clear bss

[Olaf Hering]

Use memset to clear bss, instead of own version.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh at suse.de>

 arch/ppc64/boot/crt0.S |   19 -------------------
 arch/ppc64/boot/main.c |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.14-rc3/arch/ppc64/boot/crt0.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-rc3.orig/arch/ppc64/boot/crt0.S
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc3/arch/ppc64/boot/crt0.S
@@ -25,24 +25,5 @@ _start:
 	sync
 	isync
 
-	## Clear out the BSS as per ANSI C requirements
-
-	lis	r7,_end at ha
-	addi    r7,r7,_end at l		# r7 = &_end 
-	lis	r8,__bss_start at ha	# 
-	addi    r8,r8,__bss_start at l	# r8 = &_bss_start
-
-	## Determine how large an area, in number of words, to clear
-
-	subf	r7,r8,r7		# r7 = &_end - &_bss_start + 1 
-	addi	r7,r7,3			# r7 += 3 
-	srwi.	r7,r7,2			# r7 = size in words.
-	beq	3f			# If the size is zero, don't bother
-	addi	r8,r8,-4		# r8 -= 4 
-	mtctr	r7			# SPRN_CTR = number of words to clear
-	li	r0,0			# r0 = 0
-2:	stwu	r0,4(r8)		# Clear out a word
-	bdnz	2b			# Keep clearing until done
-3:
 	b	start
 
Index: linux-2.6.14-rc3/arch/ppc64/boot/main.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.14-rc3.orig/arch/ppc64/boot/main.c
+++ linux-2.6.14-rc3/arch/ppc64/boot/main.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ extern void flush_cache(void *, unsigned
 #define	ONE_MB		0x100000
 
 extern char _start[];
+extern char __bss_start[];
 extern char _end[];
 extern char _vmlinux_start[];
 extern char _vmlinux_end[];
@@ -138,6 +139,8 @@ void start(unsigned long a1, unsigned lo
 	Elf64_Ehdr *elf64;
 	Elf64_Phdr *elf64ph;
 
+	memset(__bss_start, 0, _end - __bss_start);
+
 	prom = (int (*)(void *)) promptr;
 	chosen_handle = finddevice("/chosen");
 	if (chosen_handle == (void *) -1)