On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > Dear Fabio Estevam, > > In message > <caomzo5by6kdocown_srwhpe7ssmjarez2bcfxggff-_wrdg...@mail.gmail.com> you > wrote: >> >> > It makes perfect sense to allocate variable with function scope only >> > on the stack. That's what the stack has been invented for. >> >> This buffer in the fec driver will be used in DMA transfer, so maybe >> that's the reason we should use malloc instead of using the stack? > > What has DMA to do with that? We're talking about alignment only.
I mentioned DMA because we align the buffer with __aligned(ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN). Will try to see if I can reproduce the problem here, but the last time I tried I was not able to. Maybe the gcc version that Robert and Hector pointed out may explain the different behaviour. Regards, Fabio Estevam _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
