[PATCH: dtc] Improve -S handling

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Apr 18 16:45:08 EST 2007


On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:05:28PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:05:35PM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> > If the user requests extra space, pad out the blob (previously the unused
> >   data was undefined).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gerald Van Baren <vanbaren at cideas.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Hi Jon, David, Milton,
> > 
> > This improves the -S option to pad out the blob with zeros when the user
> > asks for extra space.
> 
> Comment below
> > diff --git a/flattree.c b/flattree.c
> > index 151d16e..d2ee0dc 100644
> > --- a/flattree.c
> > +++ b/flattree.c
> > @@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ static struct data flatten_reserve_list(struct reserve_info *reservelist,
> >  	
> >  	return d;
> >  }
> > +
> >  static void make_bph(struct boot_param_header *bph,
> >  		     struct version_info *vi,
> >  		     int reservesize, int dtsize, int strsize,
> > @@ -358,12 +359,15 @@ void dt_to_blob(FILE *f, struct boot_info *bi, int version,
> >  {
> >  	struct version_info *vi = NULL;
> >  	int i;
> > +	int size;
> >  	struct data dtbuf = empty_data;
> >  	struct data strbuf = empty_data;
> >  	struct data reservebuf;
> >  	struct boot_param_header bph;
> >  	struct reserve_entry termre = {.address = 0, .size = 0};
> >  
> > +	size = 0;
> > +

Oh, also, you shouldn't need this new variable to track the size.
Just use whatever expression we used to use for totalsize before we
forced it out to the minimum size.

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