[U-Boot] [PATCH v9 10/18] sandbox: Try to start the RAM buffer at a particular address

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Oct 15 20:07:50 UTC 2018


On 14 September 2018 at 09:46, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> On 26 August 2018 at 19:01, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 08.08.18 11:54, 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>
>>
>> Is this really necessary still?
>
> It was never necessary, but it seems like a useful thing to do. It
> makes all the pointers smaller (the first 32 bits are 0 which makes
> them easier to read).

Applied to u-boot-dm.


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