[U-Boot-Users] Bug in malloc()?

[Jerry Van Baren]

Timur Tabi wrote:
> I'm trying to get the very latest U-Boot running on an MPC8323E MDS, and U-Boot 
> hangs in the code to initialize the environment.  Specifically, env_relocate() 
> calls malloc(), but malloc() never returns.
> 
> Before I try to debug the malloc() code, I was hoping someone would have a clue 
> as to what the problem is.

Sounds a lot like what Rune Torgersen was finding with the mpc8260 family.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/32645/focus=32645
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/32740
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/32752/focus=32752

gvb