Hi Marek, On 06/08/2015 16:28, Marek Vasut wrote: > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 at 04:14:34 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote: >> Hi Stefano and Marek, >> >> Thanks for the suggestions. >> >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Stefano Babic <sba...@denx.de> wrote: >>> There is the possibility to set a malloc area inside SPL: >>> >>> CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START >>> CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE >>> you do not need a lot of space, and you can try to put it inside the >>> IRAM. >>> >>> This should guarantee that spi_alloc_slave() works. >> >> So I tried moving them to the internal RAM: >> >> --- a/include/configs/imx6_spl.h >> +++ b/include/configs/imx6_spl.h >> @@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ >> #else >> #define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_START_ADDR 0x18200000 >> #define CONFIG_SPL_BSS_MAX_SIZE 0x100000 /* 1 MB */ >> -#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START 0x18300000 >> -#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE 0x3200000 /* 50 MB */ >> +#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START 0x900000 >> +#define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE 0x8000 >> #define CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE 0x17800000 >> #endif >> #endif >> >> but still getting spi_alloc_slave() to fail. > > You want to avoid this "CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_*" stuff, as it increases the > SPL size by 3kiB compared to MALLOC_F . Also, MALLOC_F needs just the base > address of the malloc area to work (see my email).
It does not matter at the moment, because Fabio's issue is not yet solved. But is it not CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC the preferred way for SPL ? Setting the array with MALLOC_F looks like a hack. And CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC is *already* set for i.MX6, lool at include/configs/imx6_spl.h: #define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START 0x18300000 #define CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE 0x3200000 /* 50 MB */ This is in RAM, of course. Increasing the size by 3KiB is not IMHO for i.MX6 a problem, there is enough space in IRAM. But what is surprising is that Fabio gets a Null pointer by malloc(). Best regards, Stefano Babic -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sba...@denx.de ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot