[U-Boot] [ARM] Rollback *again* -- 5 patches

Tom Warren
2013-04-11T17:59:29Z

Albert,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albert ARIBAUD [mailto:albert.u.boot at aribaud.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:38 AM
> To: Stephen Warren
> Cc: U-Boot; Prafulla Wadaskar; Tom Rini; Tom Warren
> Subject: Re: [ARM] Rollback *again* -- 5 patches
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:49:45 -0600, Stephen Warren
> <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>
> > On 04/11/2013 09:25 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Older toolchain and PPC incompatibilities appeared in the last two
> > > additions to ToT ARM. To avoid non-bisectability, ToT has been
> > > rolled back from abbecf4c87 to ae74b65987. This removes
> > >
> > > abbecf4 ARM: Fix __bss_start and __bss_end in linker scripts
> > ...
> > > Stephen, that is an occasion to add your proposal to aad17a2.
> >
> > Tom Warren as the Tegra maintainer should be taking care of this. I am
> > simply pointing out that the currently proposed changes to the SPL
> > size checking don't fulfil the requirements for Tegra. I don't expect
> > to have to fix the patches.
>
> I did not mean for you to do it, only that there was an opportunity to do it. :)

Why should I be fixing something I didn't break, and that worked fine before your change?

As Stephen has pointed out, Tegra uses the whole enchilada (text/rodata/data/bss) for the SPL portion. Any change you add should account for that. Even if we are unique in that use/requirement, it still needs to work correctly before and after your patch.

Tom
>
> Amicalement,
> --
> Albert.
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