device drivers. Recent versions of u-boot run with the MMU enabled, and
require DMA-based I/O to be aligned to cache line boundaries.
These changes are based on a patch originally submitted by Juergen Weiss,
but I reworked them and thus any problems are purely my fault.
Submitted by: "Juergen Weiss" <weiss@uni-mainz.de>
Reviewed by: imp, nwhitehorn, jhb
was not the fault of the module code, nor FICL. The malloc code requires
sbrk() to return addresses that were at least 16 byte aligned. If the
Alpha loader happened to be 8 byte but not 16 byte aligned in length, then
you would get a zfree() panic at startup.
Incidently, this affected the i386 loader as well, and explains why
the static heap changed things and why jlemon had trouble when the bss
was not ending at a multiple of 8 bytes.
My fix is to 16 byte align it on all arches, even though the x86 version
only required 8 byte alignment (struct MemNode is smaller there). We could
page align it if we wanted to be paranoid, but it isn't presently necessary.
compact and much better one donated by Matt Dillon. Implement a simple
sbrk() which uses the existing setheap() api.
Remove the custom allocator from the UFS code. It wasn't working quite
right, and it shouldn't be needed with the new allocator.
Fix a serious problem with changing the value of already-existent
environment variables. Don't attempt to modify the supposedly-const
argument to putenv()
Fix an off-by-one sizing error in the zipfs code detected by the new
allocator.
Submitted by: zmalloc from Matt Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>
