[U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] Update malloc to dlmalloc version 2.8.4

[Peter Tyser]

Robin Getz wrote:
> On Wed 8 Jul 2009 01:58, Mike Frysinger pondered:
>> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 18:24:56 Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> On Jul 7, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>>> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>>>>> On 15:02 Tue 07 Jul     , Scott Wood wrote:
>>>>>> Kumar Gala wrote:
>>>>>>> Those would help if the data structs had gotten bigger.  In this
>>>>>>> case  the code itself is just larger.
>>>>>> Perhaps we should look into using/writing a malloc implementation
>>>>>> that takes a space/speed tradeoff more in line with U-boot's
>>>>>> requirements (using a simple first-fit linear scan of free blocks,
>>>>>> for example) -- and hopefully more readable than dlmalloc?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I nominate those with the tightest space requirements to do
>>>>>> this. :-)
>>>>> I agree it's sound a better plan
>>>>> but I'll take a lot's of time
>>> Do we think there is some other project that we can acquire one from?
>> there was another public domain malloc implementation Robin pointed me to 
>> recently, but i cant seem to remember/find it.
> 
> It was bget
> 
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/bget/

The CFE bootloader has a pretty simple malloc implementation.  It looks 
relatively readable and is much smaller than dlmalloc:

ptyser at petert cfe$ size cfe30/lib_malloc.o
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    1128       4       0    1132     46c cfe30/lib_malloc.o

http://www.broadcom.com/support/communications_processors/downloads.php

Some other liberally licensed bootloaders such as PMON2000 might have 
some basic implementations too.

Best,
Peter