[U-Boot] [PATCH] env_mmc: fix buffer allocation for armv7

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:17:01PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Tom,
> 
> In message <20131008134456.GB15917 at bill-the-cat> you wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, if we have DDR such that we can use it for the malloc arena, we
> > > also should use it for the stack.  Or is there a good reason for not
> > > doing this?  It would solve all these issues at the root...
> > 
> > Making SPL more complex for everyone?  We would need to do a fairly
> > good-sized re-jigger of SPL to setup and swap around stack pointers like
> > we do in full U-Boot.
> 
> Hm,  I'm not convinced.  As proposed, we make the code bigger, less
> efficient, more error prone and more ugly for everyone, not only for
> SPL users.  Aslo, this might not be the only place where buffers or
> such may be kept on the stack.  I hope you don't want to change all
> these?
> 
> Really, if we have the resources, we should use them.  If RAM is
> abailable, it should also be used for the stack.  Just using it for
> malloc() is neither fish nor fowl.

I'll ceed the point and re-work things on my series then.  Markus, your
patch is good as-is and I shall pick it up shortly.

-- 
Tom
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