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

[Nikita Kiryanov]

Gentle ping.

On 02/24/2013 06:19 PM, 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
>
>   README                     |   11 +++++++++++
>   common/lcd.c               |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   doc/README.displaying-bmps |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/configs/cm_t35.h   |    2 ++
>   include/env_callback.h     |    7 +++++++
>   5 files changed, 73 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 doc/README.displaying-bmps
>


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Regards,
Nikita.