[PATCH 5/7] provide real barebox end variable

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Sat Jan 15 09:48:21 EST 2011


On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 02:50:23AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 20:51 Fri 14 Jan     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > Sometimes it's useful to have the memory end address barebox uses.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  include/reloc.h |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/reloc.h b/include/reloc.h
> > index 22cb886..a0bf15f 100644
> > --- a/include/reloc.h
> > +++ b/include/reloc.h
> > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> >  #ifndef __RELOC_H
> >  #define __RELOC_H
> >  
> > -extern unsigned long _barebox_start, _bss_start, _bss_end, _text_base;
> > +extern unsigned long _barebox_start, _bss_start, _bss_end, _text_base, _end;
> how about _barebox_end

Agreed. I just used this name because I didn't want to change all linker
scripts, but laziness is not a good argument for introducing a global variable
with such a generic name.

Sascha

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