[U-Boot] [PATCH V2] cfb_console: force natural alignment of 32-bit fields in gzipped .bmp files

[Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>]

Sorry Wolfgang,

On 02/28/2014 02:44 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Eric Nelson,
>
> your message contains no thread information - there is neither a
> In-reply-to: nor any References: header.  This is bad!
>
> Please also make sure to keep the Subject: test short; the recommended
> style for the commit message is "50/72 formatting", i. e. the Subject
> should not exceed 50 (...60) characters.
>

Okay. I was trying to be more explicit here.

> In message <1393621572-10306-1-git-send-email-eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com> you wrote:
>> .bmp files contain 32-bit integers aligned at offsets of +2, +6,
>> et cetera within the bmp_header structure (see include/bmp_layout.h).
>>
>> Support for gzip-compressed .bmp files is present in the cfb_console
>> display subsystem by uncompressing them prior to use.
>>
>> This patch forces the in-memory header to be aligned properly
>> for these compressed images by extracting them to a 2-byte
>> offset in the memory returned by malloc. Since malloc will always
>> return a 4-byte aligned value, this forces the .bmp header
>> fields to be naturally aligned on 4-byte addresses.
>>
>> Refer to these files for more details:
>> 	doc/README.displaying-bmps
>> 	doc/README.arm-unaligned-accesses
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/video/cfb_console.c | 7 +++++--
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> So what exactly has changed since version 1?  Please note that the
> change log is mandatory!
>

Got it.

>> diff --git a/drivers/video/cfb_console.c b/drivers/video/cfb_console.c
>> index 6db4073..2209148 100644
>> --- a/drivers/video/cfb_console.c
>> +++ b/drivers/video/cfb_console.c
>> @@ -1473,7 +1473,10 @@ int video_display_bitmap(ulong bmp_image, int x, int y)
>>   			printf("Error: malloc in gunzip failed!\n");
>>   			return 1;
>>   		}
>> -		if (gunzip(dst, CONFIG_SYS_VIDEO_LOGO_MAX_SIZE,
>> +		/* NB: we need to force offset of +2
>> +		 * See doc/README.displaying-bmps
>> +		 */
>
> Incorrect multiline comment style, please fix.
>
> I asked you before to fix that, please make sure not to ignore
> review comments!
>
Not intentional... Will fix in V3.

Regards,


Eric