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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] memory corruption on nios2 due to overlap of gbl data and malloc
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:04:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201202291404.26773.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALButCJVw8+_HXjF1RYD6T8Pea8SF6UoJJPN_G3jEamuzYn03g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 28 February 2012 18:32:57 Graeme Russ wrote:
> And this is why I dislike the implementation - You have to do all sorts of
> weird calucations to put things in the right place when, in fact, the
> location of gd and bd in memory is totally irrelavent.

right, that's why i minimized the pain for Blackfin users -- this is all 
handled in the arch's config-pre.h header.  board porters only need to declare 
the size of regions they care about (monitor and heap sizes).

> Ow, ouch! - And that padding makes things more fun - The memory layout is
> 
> U-Boot | gd | pad | bd | pad | heap

fwiw, i documented the Blackfin memory layout:
http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bootloaders:u-boot:memory-layout
-mike
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-20 23:24 [U-Boot] memory corruption on nios2 due to overlap of gbl data and malloc Alex Hornung
2012-02-28 22:29 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-02-28 22:39   ` Graeme Russ
2012-02-28 22:55     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-02-28 23:20       ` Graeme Russ
2012-02-28 23:24         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-02-28 23:32           ` Graeme Russ
2012-02-29 19:04             ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2012-02-29 22:22               ` Graeme Russ
2012-02-29 22:29                 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-02-29 22:41                   ` Graeme Russ
2012-03-01  7:09                     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] nios2: move gd and bd into BSS Thomas Chou
2012-03-01 17:17                       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-02  2:55                         ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Thomas Chou
2012-03-02  3:22                           ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-01 21:57                     ` [U-Boot] memory corruption on nios2 due to overlap of gbl data and malloc Albert ARIBAUD
2012-03-01 22:11                       ` Graeme Russ

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