From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: mx6: Reduce SPL malloc pool size
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:16:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201512011516.29849.marex@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+vNU11c94nsxAipbAS2f1Vjj+LDER_kdSf933TbYQOD0MWpw@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday, December 01, 2015 at 03:13:17 PM, Tim Harvey wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> >> Perhaps the use case for a >1MB malloc area is falcon mode. While a
> >> 1MB area certainly works for loading and bootstrapping to u-boot.img I
> >> have used anywhere from 1MB to 8MB images for falcon mode.
> >
> > Does the falcon mode load the image into malloc'd area or directly into
> > RAM location ? If it's the former, then yeah, large malloc pool makes
> > sense and MALLOC_CLEAR_ON_INIT makes sense as well I guess.
>
> Marek,
Hi Tim,
> I checked and Falcon mode does load images directly into RAM so large
> malloc still doesn't make sense and should be reduced. I think 1MB is
> a fine value.
Thank you!
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-01 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-20 20:43 [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: mx6: Reduce SPL malloc pool size Marek Vasut
2015-11-20 21:24 ` Stefano Babic
2015-11-20 21:40 ` Tim Harvey
2015-11-25 10:40 ` Przemyslaw Marczak
2015-11-25 10:56 ` Marek Vasut
2015-11-25 12:00 ` Przemyslaw Marczak
2015-11-25 12:16 ` Marek Vasut
2015-11-25 13:15 ` Przemyslaw Marczak
2015-11-25 13:32 ` Marek Vasut
2015-11-30 18:56 ` Tim Harvey
2015-11-30 23:31 ` Marek Vasut
2015-12-01 14:13 ` Tim Harvey
2015-12-01 14:16 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2015-12-01 14:18 ` Stefano Babic
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