[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/35][RFC] arm: socfpga: Usability fixes

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Sep 17 07:33:43 CEST 2014


Dear Marek,

In message <201409162355.22221.marex at denx.de> you wrote:
>
>                                          ... For the get_ram_size(), the read 
> from the unpopulated DRAM space contains zeroes ...

<nitpick>

Reading from non-existent memory is not guaranteed to return zeroes,
nor any other specific value; in general, the value you read back is
undefined.

</nitpick>

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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