[U-Boot] [PATCH] spl: Allow settings malloc_f base address

[Simon Glass]

Hi Marek,

On 24 May 2016 at 18:14, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> Allow configuring the begining of the malloc_f area in SPL.
> This patch uses the same CONFIG_MALLOC_F_ADDR established by
> the sandbox.

What is this used for? Is the existing scheme (using the stack space)
not suitable? I think it should move to Kconfig before being used more
widely.

>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
>  common/spl/spl.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/common/spl/spl.c b/common/spl/spl.c
> index 93f9bd1..56c64d1 100644
> --- a/common/spl/spl.c
> +++ b/common/spl/spl.c
> @@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ int spl_init(void)
>
>         debug("spl_init()\n");
>  #if defined(CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN)
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MALLOC_F_ADDR
> +       gd->malloc_base = CONFIG_MALLOC_F_ADDR;
> +#endif
>         gd->malloc_limit = CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN;
>         gd->malloc_ptr = 0;
>  #endif
> --
> 2.7.0
>

Regards,
Simon