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From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] ARM: tegra: check for SPL size overflow in makefile
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:27:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121018162721.GO27770@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350424209-11186-3-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 03:50:08PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> 
> If the SPL extends beyond CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE, then it will likely
> corrupt the main U-Boot binary during execution, causing the main U-Boot
> binary to fail. Check for this situation during the build to avoid
> extremely annoying and hard-to-find bugs. Note that checking the size of
> u-boot-spl.bin is not enough, since BSS size doesn't affect the size of
> u-boot-spl.bin.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>

Can't you do this in the linker script like we do for other SPL size
constraints?  Or am I just mis-reading how this is unique and that
link-time check can't be used?  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-18 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-16 21:50 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] ARM: fix u-boot.lds for -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections Stephen Warren
2012-10-16 21:50 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] ARM: tegra: combine duplicate Makefile rules Stephen Warren
2012-10-18  0:01   ` Simon Glass
2012-10-16 21:50 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] ARM: tegra: check for SPL size overflow in makefile Stephen Warren
2012-10-18  0:03   ` Simon Glass
2012-10-18  3:18     ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-18 16:27   ` Tom Rini [this message]
2012-10-18 20:45     ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-18 20:50       ` Tom Rini
2012-10-16 21:50 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] ARM: tegra: increase CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE Stephen Warren
2012-10-16 22:09   ` Lucas Stach
2012-10-16 22:43     ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-18  0:05       ` Simon Glass
2012-10-18  3:20         ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-18 16:31           ` Tom Rini
2012-10-18 20:42             ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-17 23:58 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/4] ARM: fix u-boot.lds for -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections Simon Glass
2012-10-18  3:17   ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-18 20:36     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2012-10-18 20:58       ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-18 21:17         ` Stephen Warren
2012-10-20 10:31           ` Albert ARIBAUD

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