Consolidate cuboot initialization code

[David Gibson]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 10:21:22AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> David Gibson wrote:
> > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 10:09:11AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> >>Is there any particular reason to not just do a direct call to 
> >>cuboot_init, and move the memcpy and end-of-ram calculation there?  I'd 
> >>rather avoid macros if possible.
> > 
> > Uh.. yeah.. because cuboot_init() doesn't know the size to memcpy(),
> > because it doesn't have the right bd_t definition.
> 
> Ah, yes.  Don't mind me, it's still morning here... :-P
> 
> We could probably do away with the copy altogether, though, as u-boot 
> puts the bd_t near the stack, which is exempted from the bootwrapper's 
> heap with the 1MiB exclusion.

Possibly, though the copy is safer.  I'm hoping to be able to merge
libfdt in a few weeks, which with luck will let me get rid of malloc()
entirely.  I'll think about revisiting this then.

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