[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/4] ARM: tegra: check for SPL size overflow in makefile

Tom Rini
2012-10-18T16:27:21Z

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 03:50:08PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
>
> If the SPL extends beyond CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE, then it will likely
> corrupt the main U-Boot binary during execution, causing the main U-Boot
> binary to fail. Check for this situation during the build to avoid
> extremely annoying and hard-to-find bugs. Note that checking the size of
> u-boot-spl.bin is not enough, since BSS size doesn't affect the size of
> u-boot-spl.bin.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>

Can't you do this in the linker script like we do for other SPL size
constraints? Or am I just mis-reading how this is unique and that
link-time check can't be used? Thanks!

--
Tom
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