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From: Reinhard Meyer <u-boot@emk-elektronik.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] ALERT!  >90% of all board configurations BROKEN
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:28:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC5E865.70003@emk-elektronik.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101025200019.B5BBC152451@gemini.denx.de>

Dear Wolfgang Denk,
> this is an ALERT!
>
> I just noticed (when debugging a strage phenomenon) that most of the
> board configurations (170 out of 191 for PowerPC, _ALL_ for ARM) are
> broken, because the size of struct global_data has grown but
> CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE has not been adapted (commit 91a7675 added
> 32 bytes - and yes, I am to blame for that, where is that brown paper
> bag...)
>
> Fact is, the overwhelming majority of boards has currently problems
> like this:
>
> sizeof(struct global_data) = 136, CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE = 128
>
>
> This may appear to work, or may cause "funny" errors, or simply hangs
> the board hard very early in booting.

Grep-ing for CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE in *.[chsS] Makefile *.ld it
seems to me that with "ELF-reloc" active that define is not used
anywhere at least in ARM.

Or did I miss a place?

Best Regards,
Reinhard

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-25 20:00 [U-Boot] ALERT! >90% of all board configurations BROKEN Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-25 20:28 ` Reinhard Meyer [this message]
2010-10-25 22:07   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-26  0:11     ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-26  6:31       ` Albert ARIBAUD
2010-10-26  8:26         ` Reinhard Meyer
2010-10-26  9:40           ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-10-26  6:39   ` Heiko Schocher

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