[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] sbc8641d: misc fixes and generic board enablement

Paul Gortmaker
2015-10-17T22:50:26Z

[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.
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> Tom