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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Inconsistencies in commands regarding load_addr
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 06:40:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151008044015.BC4DB380905@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5613E20F.8060306@wsystem.com>

Dear Beno?t,

In message <5613E20F.8060306@wsystem.com> you wrote:
> 
> I've just noticed that before the commit
> 045fa1e1142552799ad3203e9e0bc22a11e866ea, ext2load and ext4load were setting the
> load_addr global variable, but not fatload. Since then, none of these commands
> set load_addr (initially derived from the loadaddr environment variable).

That's bad.

> ubifsload also does not set load_addr, but a quick grep shows that some other
> filesystem commands set it, e.g. for zfs, jffs2, reiser or cramfs.
> 
> Also, some commands set it only on success, while some other commands set it
> from the command line arguments unconditionally.
> 
> What's the expected correct behavior here?

After successful loading the data to memory, load_addr should be set
correctly, for all commands.  In the error case, the value of
load_addr is undefined.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-10-08  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-06 15:00 [U-Boot] Inconsistencies in commands regarding load_addr Benoît Thébaudeau
2015-10-06 18:09 ` Stephen Warren
2015-10-06 19:07   ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2015-10-08  4:40 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2015-10-08 14:29   ` Stephen Warren
2015-10-08 21:29     ` Wolfgang Denk
2015-10-09  8:28       ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2015-10-09 13:18         ` Wolfgang Denk
2015-10-09 14:01           ` Benoît Thébaudeau
2015-10-09 14:55             ` Wolfgang Denk
2015-10-09 15:36         ` Stephen Warren

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