[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: mx6: Reduce SPL malloc pool size

Stefano Babic
2015-12-01T14:18:00Z

Hi Marek,

On 01/12/2015 00:31, Marek Vasut wrote:

>>
>> Perhaps the use case for a >1MB malloc area is falcon mode. While a
>> 1MB area certainly works for loading and bootstrapping to u-boot.img I
>> have used anywhere from 1MB to 8MB images for falcon mode.
>
> Does the falcon mode load the image into malloc'd area or directly into
> RAM location ? If it's the former, then yeah, large malloc pool makes
> sense and MALLOC_CLEAR_ON_INIT makes sense as well I guess.

No, it copies directly into the RAM. Large malloc area are not needed
for Falcon Mode, and I have not idea who needs a large area. More as
instantiating SPI or I2C is generally not needed.

Best regards,
Stefano Babic

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