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>
As discussed on the list, move "arch/ppc" to "arch/powerpc" to
better match the Linux directory structure.
Please note that this patch also changes the "ppc" target in
MAKEALL to "powerpc" to match this new infrastructure. But "ppc"
is kept as an alias for now, to not break compatibility with
scripts using this name.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Acked-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
Many of the help messages were not really helpful; for example, many
commands that take no arguments would not print a correct synopsis
line, but "No additional help available." which is not exactly wrong,
but not helpful either.
Commit ``Make "usage" messages more helpful.'' changed this
partially. But it also became clear that lots of "Usage" and "Help"
messages (fields "usage" and "help" in struct cmd_tbl_s respective)
were actually redundant.
This patch cleans this up - for example:
Before:
=> help dtt
dtt - Digital Thermometer and Thermostat
Usage:
dtt - Read temperature from digital thermometer and thermostat.
After:
=> help dtt
dtt - Read temperature from Digital Thermometer and Thermostat
Usage:
dtt
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
IIM (IC Identification Module) is the fusebox for the mpc5121.
Use #define CONFIG_IIM to turn on the clock for this module
use #define CONFIG_CMD_FUSE to add fusebox commands.
Fusebox commands include the ability to read
the status, read the register cache, override the register cache,
program the fuses and sense them.
Signed-off-by: Martha Marx <mmarx@silicontkx.com>
Signed-off-by: John Rigby <jrigby@freescale.com>
Wolfgang Denk
Stefan Roese
Peter Tyser
Martha Marx