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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: allow boards to check file size limits
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:16:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010200116.47740.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimcki1vN0Hy5tXixytNaWYQkrgKfO=i9wM4GTch@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday, October 20, 2010 00:38:08 Vaibhav Bedia wrote:

please do not top post

> The size of other sections like the bss section also need to be accounted
> for when doing a size check.

that really cannot be checked at compile time.  it certainly cannot be done 
easily or with a few lines of shell code.

> Insufficient space for bss when doing something like a MMC read which
> requires large buffers causes system hangs for no apparent reason.

that doesnt make much sense.  bss is statically allocated.  either it exists, 
or it doesnt.  if bss doesnt work, your system/build is fundamentally screwed.  
either way, none of this is related to my patch.
-mike
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-14  2:58 [U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: allow boards to check file size limits Mike Frysinger
2010-10-18 20:43 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-19  4:17   ` Mike Frysinger
2010-10-19  5:24     ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-19  5:38       ` Mike Frysinger
2010-10-19 21:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-20  4:38   ` Vaibhav Bedia
2010-10-20  5:16     ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2010-10-20  6:56       ` Vaibhav Bedia
2010-10-20  7:19         ` Wolfgang Denk

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