[PATCH] bootwrapper: cuboot-83xx: Exclude upper 1MB from heap.
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Sat Apr 28 02:38:37 EST 2007
Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>
>> The uppermost part of memory is where u-boot puts the stack, so don't
>> include that in the heap. It's not currently causing problems, as the
>> current code allocates from the bottom of the heap, but this will keep
>> things from potentially breaking if a future implementation were to
>> allocate from the top.
>
>
> Why does it matter where u-boot puts it stack? Once control is handed
> over I'd expect it not to matter.
The bootwrapper uses the stack provided by u-boot (unless the platform
requests otherwise).
-Scott
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