[PATCH] bsps/sparc: Add grlib_malloc(), grlib_calloc()

[Daniel Hellstrom]

On 2018-12-21 15:02, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 21/12/2018 14:59, Daniel Hellstrom wrote:
>> On 2018-12-21 14:57, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>
>>> On 21/12/2018 14:42, Daniel Hellstrom wrote:
>>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for my very late response! I have reviewed the code but not 
>>>> executed it, it looks okay with me. I'm guessing it is also a 
>>>> positive thing to remove malloc for another approach to allocate 
>>>> memory when it comes to validation of the SW.
>>>
>>> thanks for the review.
>>>
>>> My next step is to move the grlib to bsps/shared/grlib so that it 
>>> can be used for RISC-V BSPs.
>>
>>
>> Great news! how will you do with the driver manager in this case, 
>> will you add a connection between FDT and the driver manager via 
>> FDT-bus driver? I think that would be of interest also for LEON, I 
>> would be happy to review such a solution or similar one. 
>
> Sorry, I don't have time to match the FDT with the driver manager. The 
> libbsd has already this functionality. All I plan to do at the moment 
> is to move the files and make them compile clean.
>
Okay, in the long-term do you think it is better to move to the libbsd 
way than using the driver manager? The driver manager is around 10k, and 
the required stuff around 5k on sparc if I recall correctly. Do you have 
an idea how large the device discovery, etc. is in libbsd?