[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/5] board_init.c: make the reserve functions as weak

[Andy Yan]

Hi Simon:


On 2017年07月07日 11:58, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> On 30 June 2017 at 01:47, Andy Yan <andy.yan at rock-chips.com> wrote:
>> Some platform like rk3036 has no enough sapce for
>> malloc and also has no necessary to use malloc function
>> in spl stage. But the malloc pool is need in u-boot stage
>> before relocation.Make the reserve functions as weak, so
>> we can override it with a no malloc reserve in spl stage
>> and use the weak function to reserve malloc pool in u-boot
>> stage.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Yan <andy.yan at rock-chips.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>>   common/init/board_init.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> I am not keen on weak functions for this sort of thing.
>
> Can we instead be explicit and introduce a new control CONFIG_SPL_SYS_MALLOC_F?

     I also have this ideas, but with a grep I found the 
CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN is spread all over the project. So maybe it's a 
little hard to seperate it. Anyway, I will have a try.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
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