Introduce board_init_f_mem() to handle early memory layout
At present on some architectures we set up the following before calling
board_init_f():
- global_data
- stack
- early malloc memory
Adding the code to support early malloc and global data setup to every
arch's assembler start-up is a pain. Also this code is not actually
architecture-specific. We can use common code for all architectures and
with a bit of care we can write this code in C.
Add a new function to deal with this. It should be called after memory
is available, with a pointer to the top of the area that should be used
before relocation. The function will set things up and return the lowest
memory address that it allocated/used. That can then be set as the top
of the stack.
Note that on some archs this function will use the stack, so the stack
pointer should be set to same value as is pased to board_init_f_mem().
A margin of 128 bytes will be left for this stack, so that it is not
overwritten. This means that 64 bytes is wasted by this early call.
This is not strictly necessary on several more modern archs, so we could
remove this at the cost of some arch-dependent code.
With this function there is no-longer any need for the assembler code to
zero global_data or set up the early malloc pointers.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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