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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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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