On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Fabio Estevam <feste...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Stefano Babic <sba...@denx.de> wrote:
>
>> 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().
>
> Yes, so I did a simpler patch that shows the malloc() issue with SPL:
Ok, with this change malloc() does not fail with SPL:
--- a/board/freescale/mx6sabresd/mx6sabresd.c
+++ b/board/freescale/mx6sabresd/mx6sabresd.c
@@ -692,6 +692,7 @@ int checkboard(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD
#include <spl.h>
#include <libfdt.h>
+#include <malloc.h>
const struct mx6dq_iomux_ddr_regs mx6_ddr_ioregs = {
.dram_sdclk_0 = 0x00020030,
@@ -822,6 +823,7 @@ static void spl_dram_init(void)
void board_init_f(ulong dummy)
{
+ void __iomem *ptr;
/* setup AIPS and disable watchdog */
arch_cpu_init();
@@ -837,6 +839,12 @@ void board_init_f(ulong dummy)
/* UART clocks enabled and gd valid - init serial console */
preloader_console_init();
+ gd->malloc_limit = CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F_LEN;
+ gd->malloc_ptr = 0;
+ ptr = malloc(64);
+ if (!ptr)
+ puts("*** malloc returned NULL\n");
+
/* DDR initialization */
spl_dram_init();
Regards,
Fabio Estevam
_______________________________________________
U-Boot mailing list
U-Boot@lists.denx.de
http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
