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

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Sep 14 15:46:32 UTC 2018


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).

Regards,
Simon


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