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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] env: fix potential stack overflow in environment functions
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:06:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130406070621.85DF22002D9@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1365203857.17535.16@snotra>

Dear Scott,

In message <1365203857.17535.16@snotra> you wrote:
>
> > Scott, Andy:  I think I remember that some architectures really _need_
> > LMB - can you please shed a bit ligh on which these are, and why?  And
> > why it is enabled everywhere?
> > 
> > Also, any information about the underlying design, intended memory map
> > etc. would be highly welcome.
>
> CCing Kumar, who added a lot of the lmb stuff -- but it looks like  
> ramdisk copying predated lmb.

Indeed it does.  It even predates U-Boot.  The question is what the
actual design of LMB is, i. e. why it is implemented the way it is.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-06  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-22 21:26 [U-Boot] [PATCH] env: fix potential stack overflow in environment functions Rob Herring
2013-03-22 22:04 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-03-22 22:56   ` Rob Herring
2013-03-23  0:29     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-04-03 15:30 ` [U-Boot] " Tom Rini
2013-04-05 11:17   ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-04-05 15:26     ` Rob Herring
2013-04-05 16:15       ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-04-05 16:21       ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-04-05 16:24     ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-04-05 16:40       ` Rob Herring
2013-04-05 17:13         ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-04-05 18:16           ` Rob Herring
2013-04-05 18:47             ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-04-05 23:17               ` Scott Wood
2013-04-06  7:06                 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2013-04-05 18:49             ` Tom Rini

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