[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 5/9] arm: Support pre-relocation malloc()

[Simon Glass]

Add support for re-relocation malloc() in arm's start-up code.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

Changes in v3:
- Rebase on earlier patch

Changes in v2: None

 README              | 3 +++
 arch/arm/lib/crt0.S | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 11e9d31..73abbf0 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3749,6 +3749,9 @@ Configuration Settings:
 		The memory will be freed (or in fact just forgotton) when
 		U-Boot relocates itself.
 
+		Pre-relocation malloc() is only supported on ARM at present
+		but is fairly easy to enable for other archs.
+
 - CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN:
 		Normally compressed uImages are limited to an
 		uncompressed size of 8 MBytes. If this is not enough,
diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S b/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
index 43aa212..29cdad0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
+++ b/arch/arm/lib/crt0.S
@@ -78,7 +78,10 @@ clr_gd:
 	strlo	r0, [r1]		/* clear 32-bit GD word */
 	addlo	r1, r1, #4		/* move to next */
 	blo	clr_gd
-
+#if defined(CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN) && !defined(CONFIG_SPL_BUILD)
+	sub	sp, sp, #CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN
+	str	sp, [r9, #GD_MALLOC_BASE]
+#endif
 	/* mov r0, #0 not needed due to above code */
 	bl	board_init_f
 
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