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Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils/fix4SA110rev2/DESCR')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/fix4SA110rev2/DESCR | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/fix4SA110rev2/DESCR b/sysutils/fix4SA110rev2/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7f575c27ad1 --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/fix4SA110rev2/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +fix4SA110rev2 modifies arm32 binaries in an attempt to work around +StrongARM rev2 problems + +It attempts to identify the instructions that will cause problems +and moves them to a safe location. The "safe" location is final +page of the text (code) segment of the executable, which normally +has some spare bytes before the start of the data segment. Having +moved the instruction, it then puts a branch to the new location +where the old instruction used to be so that things will continue +to work. |