Dear Igor,
In message 51111C0F.60404@compulab.co.il you wrote:
This is a relatively new default setting for the compiler, and I think this is the reason why you (still) haven't heard about it. Also, do you really expect that whoever gets the board bricked will go complaining to the mailing list?
Then how do we kno if this is just an anticipated or a real problem?
Loading of the splash screen has been a part of the U-Boot boot sequence for ages, so the test of the feature is roughly just place the bmp image in the right place on the storage device, set the splashimage variable and reset the board.
Maybe I'm so weird then - I think I have never blindly installed a splash screen without checking before that it actually works and looks good, using the "bmp" command...
Can you propose a feasible (yet not too expensive and not out of mainline tree) solution?
Well, if I understand the situation correctly, the problem we have is that the bitmap address for the splash screen should be aligned to an even 32 bit boundary + 1. The address is stored in an environment variable.
So why don't we implement a callback on that variable that checks itd's value when it gets set? We have all the features in place now; and we can even overwrite such a default setting on boards where it's not needed / wanted.
So my recommendation is: add a new alignment-checking extension as a callback to the variable handling code.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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