Re: Consolidate cuboot initialization code

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 10:09:11AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
> > +void cuboot_init(unsigned long r4, unsigned long r5,
> > +		 unsigned long r6, unsigned long r7,
> > +		 unsigned long end_of_ram);
> > +
> > +#define CUBOOT_INIT() \
> > +	do { \
> > +		memcpy(&bd, (bd_t *)r3, sizeof(bd)); \
> > +		cuboot_init(r4, r5, r6, r7, bd.bi_memstart + bd.bi_memsize); \
> > +	} while (0)
> 
> Is there any particular reason to not just do a direct call to 
> cuboot_init, and move the memcpy and end-of-ram calculation there?  I'd 
> rather avoid macros if possible.

Uh.. yeah.. because cuboot_init() doesn't know the size to memcpy(),
because it doesn't have the right bd_t definition.

> Also, the "extern char _dtb_start[], _dtb_end[];" line in cuboot.c 
> doesn't appear to be needed.

Oh, yeah, that's a hangover from when I had the ft initialization in
there as well.  That works for 83xx and 85xx, but not ebony.

> Other than that, it looks good.
> 
> -Scott
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