From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] sbc8641d: misc fixes and generic board enablement
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 18:50:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151017225026.GT26878@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151017215021.GV23893@bill-the-cat>
[Re: [PATCH 0/6] sbc8641d: misc fixes and generic board enablement] On 17/10/2015 (Sat 17:50) Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 04:40:25PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>
> > The sbc8641d is not really a state of the art board anymore, but it
> > does have the distinctive feature of being one of the relatively few
> > SMP powerpc boards around. Combined with its small form factor, it
> > remains a useful testing platform. So here we enable the generic
> > board support so that it can remain in tree.
> >
> > It turns out that in bringing the board forward, we've run into the
> > size limit for the image, due to inevitable expansion, which led
> > to some odd testing behaviour, depending on .config settings etc.
> > Here we increase the image space from two 128k sectors to three,
> > so we should be good for as long as the board remains relevant now.
>
> Thanks for finding this. I am going to grab this for the release and I
> might re-word a commit or two. I have one ask tho, can you look at
> using CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT, perhaps in a generic way so that we catch
> more "oops, the board grew too big, run-time now will fail!" issues?
Yeah, I'll have a look -- I was kind of surprised that it didn't scream at
me when this happened during the build, since I'd think we have all the
information at our fingertips to do a build bug on or similar, and I
can't be the 1st one bitten by this.
P.
--
>
> --
> Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-17 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-17 20:40 [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] sbc8641d: misc fixes and generic board enablement Paul Gortmaker
2015-10-17 20:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/6] sbc8641d: enable command line editing Paul Gortmaker
2015-10-20 0:07 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot,v2,1/6] " Tom Rini
2015-10-17 20:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/6] sbc8641d: increase malloc pool size to a sane default Paul Gortmaker
2015-10-20 0:07 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2, " Tom Rini
2015-10-17 20:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/6] sbc8641d: set proper environment sector size Paul Gortmaker
2015-10-20 0:07 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2, " Tom Rini
2015-10-17 20:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 4/6] sbc8641d: add basic flash setup instructions to README file Paul Gortmaker
2015-10-20 0:07 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2, " Tom Rini
2015-10-17 20:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 5/6] sbc8641d: enable and test CONFIG_SYS_GENERIC_BOARD Paul Gortmaker
2015-10-20 0:07 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2, " Tom Rini
2015-10-20 14:49 ` Paul Gortmaker
2015-10-17 20:40 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 6/6] sbc8641d: increase monitor size from 256k to 384k Paul Gortmaker
2015-10-20 0:07 ` [U-Boot] [U-Boot, v2, " Tom Rini
2015-10-17 21:50 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] sbc8641d: misc fixes and generic board enablement Tom Rini
2015-10-17 22:50 ` Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2015-10-17 23:11 ` Paul Gortmaker
2015-10-17 23:58 ` Tom Rini
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