Hi, The size of other sections like the bss section also need to be accounted for when doing a size check.
Insufficient space for bss when doing something like a MMC read which requires large buffers causes system hangs for no apparent reason. Regards, Vaibhav On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Wolfgang Denk <w...@denx.de> wrote: > Dear Mike Frysinger, > > In message <1287025103-26681-1-git-send-email-vap...@gentoo.org> you > wrote: > > Boards often have a reserved size limit on the flash where they're > stored. > > Sometimes during upgrades or config changes, those limits are exceeded, > > but no one notices until they try to upgrade and the limit screws things > > up. Either not enough of U-Boot is written to flash (and so the reboot > > fails), or too much is written (and so things after it get clobbered). > > > > So allow boards to declare a size limit (in bytes) and have the build > > system check it while building. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> > > --- > > Makefile | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > > 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > Applied, thanks. > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de > A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the > writer. -- Dean Acheson > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot > -- Regards, Vaibhav
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