[U-Boot-Users] Access global data from standalone application
Hi,
Is there any way to access global data defined in U-Boot from standalone applications? For example, hello_world wants to access flash_info[].
Regards, -Shawn.
In message c3d0340b05061715317273d9ae@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Is there any way to access global data defined in U-Boot from standalone applications? For example, hello_world wants to access flash_info[].
Be careful with your terms. It is trivial to access "global data" in SA apps as the GD pointer is passed in a register - but "Global Data" in U-Boot is something which has nothing to do with flash_info[].
You can export and call in SA apps functions which perform operations on flash_info[], but you cannot access flash_info[] or any other global variables directly.
Note that this is intentional.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
Is there any way to access global data defined in U-Boot from standalone applications? For example, hello_world wants to access flash_info[].
Be careful with your terms. It is trivial to access "global data" in SA apps as the GD pointer is passed in a register - but "Global Data" in U-Boot is something which has nothing to do with flash_info[].
Well, what I meant is exported data. Thanks for the clarification. My understanding is that the GD pointer points to gd_t. Those data inside gd_t can be accessed trivially in SA apps, as you said.
You can export and call in SA apps functions which perform operations on flash_info[], but you cannot access flash_info[] or any other global variables directly.
Confused. How do SA apps perform operations on exported data without accessing them? Could you elaborate a little bit? I want to write a SA app to print the protection info of all flash banks. I know flinfo can do that. I just do some experiments. ;)
Regards, -Shawn.
Hello,
in message c3d0340b05061717456bc12331@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
You can export and call in SA apps functions which perform operations
^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
on flash_info[], but you cannot access flash_info[] or any other global variables directly.
Confused. How do SA apps perform operations on exported data without accessing them? Could you elaborate a little bit? I want to write a SA
By calling functions in the U-Boot code which use the data.
app to print the protection info of all flash banks. I know flinfo can do that. I just do some experiments. ;)
Then just export and call the do_flinfo function.
Why reinvent the wheel or duplicate already existing code?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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