[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] powerpc/8xxx: Add new hwconfig APIs to address early parsing used by DDR init

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Kumar Gala,

In message <1295391047-10952-1-git-send-email-galak at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> There are several users of the hwconfig APIs (8xxx DDR) before we have
> the environment properly setup.  This causes issues because of the
> numerous ways the environment might be accessed because of the
> non-volatile memory it might be stored in.  Additionally the access
> might be so early that memory isn't even properly setup for us.
> 
> Towards resolving these issues we provide versions of all the hwconfig
> APIs that can be passed in a buffer to parse and leave it to the caller
> to determine how to allocate and populate the buffer.
> 
> We use the _f naming convention for these new APIs even though they are
> perfectly useable after relocation and the environment being ready.
> 
> We also now warn if the non-f APIs are called before the environment is
> ready to allow users to address the issues.
> 
> Finally, we convert the 8xxx DDR code to utilize the new APIs to
> hopefully address the issue once and for all.  We have the 8xxx DDR code
> create a buffer on the stack and populate it via getenv_f().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
> ---
> * Reworked __hwconfig to not require an additional local var per WD's comments
> 
>  arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc8xxx/ddr/options.c |   78 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  common/hwconfig.c                      |   86 ++++++++++++++++---------------
>  include/hwconfig.h                     |   68 +++++++++++++++++++------
>  3 files changed, 154 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>

Please pull through 8xxx repo.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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