[U-Boot] [ARM] Rollback *again* -- 5 patches PLUS 31 patches...

Benoît Thébaudeau
2013-04-11T16:33:35Z

Hi Albert,

On Thursday, April 11, 2013 6:30:58 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hi Albert,
>
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:25:34 +0200, Albert ARIBAUD
> <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> 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
> >
> > (HIDDEN not known by most binutils 2.22 or older ones)
> >
> > aad17a2 ARM: fix CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE semantics
> > 72c1601 smdk5250, snow: fix CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE semantics
> > 55e46fc da850evm, da850_am18xxevm: fix CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE semantics
> > 0502854 cam_enc_4xx: fix CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE semantics
> >
> > (PPC builds fail because --pad-to receives an expr, not a constant)
>
> Actually, the failure was not due to this series, but to patch
> 16/30 of Beno?t's series. In agreement with Tom, rolling further back,
> removing the recent TI PR merge and all of Beno?t's series.
>
> Beno?t, can you fix 16/30 wrt PPC building? If you provide branches, I
> or Tom can do tests.
>
> Once v12 is ready, I'll apply it back, then the TI PR, then the
> __bss_end patch, then the SPL max size series, this one list in order
> to give us time to choose how overall SPL text+data+rodata+BSS
> size testing should be done.

OK, I'll do that. I need to know:
- which board fails,
- where to find the toolchain binaries ready to use for PPC (Ubuntu package?),
- if all other arches have been build-tested in order to avoid new issues
popping out later.

Best regards,
Beno?t