
2 Oct
2018
2 Oct
'18
1:22 p.m.
There is a strange feature to set global_data to a data-section variable early in SPL. This only works if SPL actually has access to SRAM which is not the case on x86, for eaxmple. Add a comment to this effect.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org ---
Changes in v2: None
common/spl/spl.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/common/spl/spl.c b/common/spl/spl.c index 9faed0a2adb..396c42e1e1b 100644 --- a/common/spl/spl.c +++ b/common/spl/spl.c @@ -380,6 +380,10 @@ static int spl_common_init(bool setup_malloc)
void spl_set_bd(void) { + /* + * NOTE: On some platforms (e.g. x86) bdata may be in flash and not + * writeable. + */ if (!gd->bd) gd->bd = &bdata; }
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