[U-Boot] sandbox: Crash on startup

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 01 November 2011 10:01:53 Simon Glass wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Matthias Weisser wrote:
> > I just wanted to play around with the sandbox "arch" of u-boot maybe
> > adding tun/tap support. Current head compiled successfully but crashed
> > immediately after startup in board_init_f:
> > 
> >        gd = malloc(sizeof(gd_t));
> >        assert(gd);
> > 
> >        memset((void *)gd, 0, sizeof(gd_t));
> > 
> > The simple reason was that malloc refers to u-boots internal malloc
> > which is not initialized at this point. I added the following snippet
> 
> That is odd. This commit is supposed to switch over to the system malloc():
> 
> fe34107 sandbox: Disable built-in malloc
> 
> Can you please check that it is there?

hmm, this was working for me, but now it's not.  so something has changed ...

but probably best to cut over to the mmap/virtual mapping route proposed 
elsewhere so that we can test the internal u-boot malloc and not worry about 
people accidentally breaking sandbox like this in the future.
-mike
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