Add some text to clarify the usage of full malloc (when CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START is selected) and also that simple malloc() can be used prior to DRAM initialization if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam fabio.estevam@freescale.com --- Changes since v1: - Improve README and commit log (Simon)
README | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/README b/README index ef8d437..92d36e6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -3568,6 +3568,9 @@ FIT uImage format:
CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_START Starting address of the malloc pool used in SPL. + When this option is set the full malloc is used in SPL and + it is set up by spl_init() and before that, the simple malloc() + can be used if CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_F is defined.
CONFIG_SYS_SPL_MALLOC_SIZE The size of the malloc pool used in SPL.