[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Fix initrd/dtb interaction

Jerry Van Baren gvb.uboot at gmail.com
Tue Aug 14 05:05:42 CEST 2007


Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Andy,
> 
> in message <11870460962397-git-send-email-afleming at freescale.com> you wrote:
>> The original code would wrongly relocate the blob to be right before
>> the initrd if it existed.  The blob *must* be within CFG_BOOTMAPSZ,
>> if it is defined.  So we make two changes:
>>
>> 1) flag the blob for relocation whenever its address is above BOOTMAPSZ
>>
>> 2) If the blob is being relocated, relocate it before kbd, not initrd
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming at freescale.com>
> 
> NAK.
> 
> 
> I'm afraid I have to reject this patch.
> 
> 
>> diff --git a/common/cmd_bootm.c b/common/cmd_bootm.c
>> index 2436581..580a9f0 100644
>> --- a/common/cmd_bootm.c
>> +++ b/common/cmd_bootm.c
>> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
>>   * MA 02111-1307 USA
>>   */
>>  
>> +#define DEBUG
> 
> First, please don't enable DEBUG like this in common files.

Agree with this comment.

>> +#ifdef CFG_BOOTMAPSZ
>> +	/*
>> +	 * The blob must be within CFG_BOOTMAPSZ,
>> +	 * so we flag it to be copied if it is
>> +	 */
>> +	if (of_flat_tree >= (char *)CFG_BOOTMAPSZ)
>> +		of_data = of_flat_tree;
>> +#endif
>> +

[snip]

> 
> Second, I asked you before to implement this similar like the  initrd
> location  can  be  controlled  using  the  "initrd_high"  environment
> variable (see my message Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:21:19 +0200). AFAICT you
> never replied to this.

I believe Andy got this from me.  I keyed off his statement that "The 
blob must be within CFG_BOOTMAPSZ..." so I suggested he compare 
of_flat_tree to CFG_BOOTMAPSZ, since that was the criteria that he stated.

<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/30616>

I'm ignorant of the particulars, but I assumed from the above referenced 
discussion/description that CFG_BOOTMAPSZ is a better criteria than 
initrd_high.  True?  False?

> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk

Best regards,
gvb




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