Hi, On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 at 04:14, Simon Goldschmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some platforms (like socfpga A10) need a big hep before SDRAM is available
heap > (e.g. because FAT is used). For such platforms, simple_malloc is often not > a good option as it does not support freeing memory. These platforms often Does the lack of free() actually cause any problems on this platform? > use the non-Kconfig defines CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START (and its SIZE). > > This patch allows enabling CONFIG_SPL_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN while leaving > CONFIG_SPL_SYS_MALLOC_SIMPLE disabled. In this case, the full malloc heap > is made available as early as the simple_malloc heap would be normally. Why not init SDRAM before using FAT? > > This way, platforms can drop the non-Kconfig options to set up the full > heap and rely on the same automatically calculated heap allocation used > for simple heap. > > Signed-off-by: Simon Goldschmidt <[email protected]> > --- > > Changes in v2: None > > common/spl/spl.c | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
