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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:01:35 -0500
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Bug in malloc()?
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Rune Torgersen wrote:
>> From: Timur Tabi [mailto:timur at freescale.com] 
>> Something tells me that a lot of 83xx and 82xx platforms are broken.
> 
> I would think ALL of them are broken. Probably also some of the other
> PPC platforms.
> Some must be working, (probably 85xx and 440, based in some of the
> commit messages)

I just got a report that 8568 works.

I think the problem may come from mem_malloc_init().  I'm debugging that right 
now.  It's possible that the heap data structures are being located (partially) 
in flash, and that's causing them to have invalid values.