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From: Stefan Roese <stefan.roese@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:24:13 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 3/6] SPL: Port SPL framework to powerpc
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On 08/24/2012 06:42 PM, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
>>>> The u-boot image is merged with SPL
>>>> image without any padding or
>>>> fixed flash offsets to achieve a maximum reduction of flash footprint.
>>>
>>> Interesting. I'm still padding to the fixed offset. Let me look into
>>> squeezing those two images together as well...
>>
>> Looks good. One question though: How do you make sure, that your SPL
>> image length is 4-byte aligned?
> 
> I have 4-byte alignments for each section and for each address symbol
> in my linker script.
> Actually all MIPS linker scripts do this.

Yes. I have those section alignments in the linker script as well. The
problem is the end of the last (physical end in flash) section. If I
have here a string with length 7 for example, the SPL binary has a
non-4-byte aligned length.

Any ideas on this?

Thanks,
Stefan