Dear Graeme Russ, In message <CALButCKtUBx1+prpcLC-YRFc7GV6Dgq_TFx-QwH4WXCvnST=o...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > I've mentioned this before - I think gd is being abused. To me, gd > should contain only data members that are explicitly required prior to > SDRAM being initialised and BSS being available. It has become a bit > of a 'well I need this variable everywhere, I'll dump it in gd'.
All too true!! > To be honest, I think gd should only be a temporary structure used to > carry specific data through the initialisation process up to the point > BSS becomes available. With the 'early malloc' patches in the > pipeline, it might even be possible to malloc the gd structure early > and then when BSS is available, copy the data into the final global > data structure in BSS. I think that would be complicated by functions > that need to use gd both before and after BSS becomes available. If we could drop gd after relocation, I'd be all too happy. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Success in marriage is not so much finding the right person as it is being the right person. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
