In many cases, pointers to memory are passed around, and these pointers
refer to U-Boot memory, not host memory. This in itself is not a
problem.
However, in a few places, we cast that pointer back to a ulong (being
a U-Boot memory address). It is possible to convert many of these cases
to avoid this. However there are data structures (e.g. struct
bootm_headers) which use pointers. We could with a lot of effort adjust
the structs and all code that uses them to use ulong instead of pointers.
This seems like an unacceptable cost, since our objective with sandbox
is to minimise the impact on U-Boot code while maximising the features
available to sandbox.
Therefore, create a map_to_sysmem() function which converts from a
pointer to a U-Boot address. This can be used sparingly when needed.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
We want to keep all OS-dependent code in once place, with a simple interface
to U-Boot. For now, this is that place.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This is an initial implementation with all functions defined but not working.
The lds file is very simple since we can mostly rely on the linker defaults.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The hush shell dynamically allocates (and re-allocates) memory for the
argument strings in the "char *argv[]" argument vector passed to
commands. Any code that modifies these pointers will cause serious
corruption of the malloc data structures and crash U-Boot, so make
sure the compiler can check that no such modifications are being done
by changing the code into "char * const argv[]".
This modification is the result of debugging a strange crash caused
after adding a new command, which used the following argument
processing code which has been working perfectly fine in all Unix
systems since version 6 - but not so in U-Boot:
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') {
/* ====> */ while (*++*argv) {
switch (**argv) {
case 'd':
debug++;
break;
...
default:
usage ();
}
}
}
...
}
The line marked "====>" will corrupt the malloc data structures and
usually cause U-Boot to crash when the next command gets executed by
the shell. With the modification, the compiler will prevent this with
an
error: increment of read-only location '*argv'
N.B.: The code above can be trivially rewritten like this:
while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') {
char *arg = *argv;
while (*++arg) {
switch (*arg) {
...
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
* Patches by Kyle Harris, 13 Mar 2003:
- Add FAT partition support
- Add command support for FAT
- Add command support for MMC
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- Add Intel PXA support for video
- Add Intel PXA support for MMC
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- Enable MMC and FAT for lubbock board
- Other misc changes for lubbock board
Simon Glass
Matthias Weisser
Wolfgang Denk
Peter Tyser
Yoshihiro Shimoda
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
wdenk