[U-Boot] Early malloc() summary

Albert ARIBAUD
2012-08-14T13:08:15Z

Hi Marek,

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:37:29 +0200, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Tomas Hlavacek,
>
> > Hello Marek,
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> wrote:
> > > So ... we should aim for firing up the real mallocator as soon as
> > > possible and maybe implement discontigmem (sparsemem) into it, so
> > > we don't have to bother with relocating pointers maybe?
> > >
> > > The only problem I see is platforms where the memory disappears.
> >
> > I doubt that on ARM for instance you can set off real mallocator
> > that early without completely rewriting it.
>
> Esp. on ARM, I won't see much of a problem. You usually have some
> small SRAM where such allocator could run.

... or not; for instance, orion5x / edminiv2 does not have such SRAM. So
how do we handle this there?

Amicalement,
--
Albert.