[U-Boot] Early malloc() summary

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Marek,

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Graeme Russ,
>

[snip]

>> When you start throwing around "discontigmem", "sparsemem" and "nifty
>> memory-management/model features" you are talking architecture specifics
>
> In uboot, not so much ... in uboot it'd be just a matter of making one memory
> are that's currently available to malloc() into list of memory areas and that's
> all. Not specific at all

Oh, I thought you were talking about having the early heap map to the
same location of the heap post-relocation by using MMUs or cache-line
mapping

If all you are talking about is discontiguous blocks of heap, I
already put a proposal forward for that

Regards,

Graeme