[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] Protect splashimage from improperly aligned addresses

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Wed Feb 27 21:06:40 CET 2013


On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 06:19:21PM +0200, Nikita Kiryanov wrote:

> As discussed in the links below, one needs to be careful about choosing an
> address for a splash image BMP file when working on architectures that can't
> handle unaligned memory accesses. A bad address may lead to a bricked board,
> and the safe addresses are not obvious due to the internal structure of BMP
> files.
> 
> This patchset documents the problem and implements an optional callback that
> prevents the environment variable from being set to a bad value.
> 
> Finally, it turns this protection on for cm_t35.
> 
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-January/144666.html
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-February/146021.html
> 
> Nikita Kiryanov (2):
>   lcd: implement a callback for splashimage
>   cm_t35: prevent splashimage from being set to a bad value

To be clear, this series is the only part required of all of the various
ones that have been posted about splash images?  Or are others still
needed here.  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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