[U-Boot] u-boot: OpenRD Ultimate fails to build

drEagle
2015-04-04T16:13:18Z

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Le 03/04/2015 23:46, Vagrant Cascadian a ?crit :
> On 2015-03-25, drEagle wrote:
>> Le 21/03/2015 15:53, Vagrant Cascadian a ?crit :
>>> It seems that OpenRD Ultimate with u-boot 2015.04-rc3 and newer no
>>> longer builds from source, both in Debian and with mainline git. It
>>> appears to have overgrown the size limits set for it:
>>
>> Looks like the NAND partition map had to be changed to give more space for u-boot.
>
> The following patch gets it to build by moving the env addr and offset
> later. This might cause problems with new or existing u-boot
> installations on openrd if the environment needs to be at a specific
> location. I have no hardware to test, so no way of confirming this
> directly:
>
> diff --git a/include/configs/openrd.h b/include/configs/openrd.h
> index b6f80af..2f1e174 100644
> --- a/include/configs/openrd.h
> +++ b/include/configs/openrd.h
> @@ -72,12 +72,12 @@
> /*
> * max 4k env size is enough, but in case of nand
> * it has to be rounded to sector size
> */
> #define CONFIG_ENV_SIZE 0x20000 /* 128k */
> -#define CONFIG_ENV_ADDR 0x60000
> -#define CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET 0x60000 /* env starts here */
> +#define CONFIG_ENV_ADDR 0x80000
> +#define CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET 0x80000 /* env starts here */
> /*
> * Environment is right behind U-Boot in flash. Make sure U-Boot
> * doesn't grow into the environment area.
> */
> #define CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET
>
>
> I'll likely remove openrd_ultimate from future uploads to Debian if I
> can't get confirmation about how to fix this properly.

The same may be a problem for SHEEVAPLUG and GURUPLUG, may be also all KIRKWOOD derivatives.
We need to get a more robust and compatible way to define the NAND PARTS, the BOOTLOAD and the NAND UPGRADE.
Each distribution has differents needs.

It's a discution needed upstream because it ill impact all distribution and users.

G?rald

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