[U-Boot] [PATCH] always relocate fdt into an lmb-allocated memory block

Kumar Gala kumar.gala at freescale.com
Wed Oct 20 07:25:22 CEST 2010


On May 24, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> The device tree (fdt) must always exist in within the bootmap (usually the
> first 16MB of RAM).  If it doesn't, then boot_relocate_fdt() will allocate an
> LMB region in the bootmap and copy the fdt into that region.  It will also
> increase the size of the fdt.
> 
> If the fdt is already in the bootmap, then previously the memory was just
> reserved.  There was no contingency if the reservation failed, however.
> 
> By always allocating an lmb region and copying/resizing the fdt into that
> region, the code is simplified and the memory region is always allocated
> properly.
> 
> Also change the types of some variables to avoid some typecasts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur at freescale.com>
> ---
> common/image.c |   83 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------------
> 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)

applied to 85xx

- k


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