[U-Boot] [U-Boot,04/15] bootstage: Convert to use malloc()

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 05:05:25AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:

> At present bootstage uses the data section of the image to store its
> information. There are a few problems with this:
> 
> - It does not work on all boards (e.g. those which run from flash before
> relocation)
> - Allocated strings still point back to the pre-relocation data after
> relocation
> 
> Now that U-Boot has a pre-relocation malloc() we can use this instead,
> with a pointer to the data in global_data. Update bootstage to do this and
> set up an init routine to allocate the memory.
> 
> Now that we have a real init function, we can drop the fake 'reset' record
> and add a normal one instead.
> 
> Note that part of the problem with allocated strings remains. They are
> reallocated but this will only work where pre-relocation memory is
> accessible after relocation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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