[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v10, 05/10] sandbox: Enhance map_to_sysmem() to handle foreign pointers

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Sat Sep 15 07:54:13 UTC 2018


> At present map_sysmem() maps an address into the sandbox RAM buffer,
> return a pointer, while map_to_sysmem() goes the other way.
> 
> The mapping is currently just 1:1 since a case was not found where a more
> flexible mapping was needed. PCI does have a separate and more complex
> mapping, but uses its own mechanism.
> 
> However this arrange cannot handle one important case, which is where a
> test declares a stack variable and passes a pointer to it into a U-Boot
> function which uses map_to_sysmem() to turn it into a address. Since the
> pointer is not inside emulated DRAM, this will fail.
> 
> Add a mapping feature which can handle any such pointer, mapping it to a
> simple tag value which can be passed around in U-Boot as an address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Thanks, applied to efi-next

Alex



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