[U-Boot] [PATCH] Makefile: use u-boot.map for binary_size_check

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Chris Packham,

In message <1406179627-9496-1-git-send-email-judge.packham@gmail.com> you wrote:
> u-boot.map is generated automatically by the compiler and more
> importantly can handle addresses >4GB.
...
> > I think it should be possible to change binary_size_check to use
> > u-boot.map instead of System.map but would that be OK for all
> > architectures?
...
> Something like this works for me but maybe there is a way to get nm to handle 
> addresses >4GB.
...
> +	map_size=$(shell cat u-boot.map | \
>  		awk '/_image_copy_start/ {start = $$1} /_image_binary_end/ {end = $$1} END {if (start != "" && end != "") print "ibase=16; " toupper(end) " - " toupper(start)}' \
> +		| sed 's/0X//g' \


Do we _really_ need all of this?

This looks very much like creaping featurism to me...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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