[U-Boot] [PATCH v8 12/30] sandbox: Try to start the RAM buffer at a particular address

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Wed Jun 20 08:51:59 UTC 2018


On 06/20/2018 12:02 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On 18 June 2018 at 08:45, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>> On 06/18/2018 04:08 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>> Use a starting address of 256MB which should be available. This helps to
>>> make sandbox RAM buffers pointers more recognisable.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
>>
>> Nak, this has a non-0 chance of failing, in case something else is already
>> mapped at that address. You don't want to have your CI blow up 1% of the
>> time due to this.
> It's just a hint though. Everything will still work if it doesn't get
> this exact address.

I don't see what it buys us then.


Alex



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