[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3 v2] Replace CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE by auto-generated value

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Oct 26 21:05:21 CEST 2010


In message <1288104730-25651-1-git-send-email-wd at denx.de> you wrote:
> CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE has always been just a bad workarond for not
> being able to use "sizeof(struct global_data)" in assembler files.
> Recent experience has shown that manual synchronization is not
> reliable enough.  This patch renames CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE into
> GENERATED_GBL_DATA_SIZE which gets automatically generated by the
> asm-offsets tool.  In the result, all definitions of this value can be
> deleted from the board config files.  We have to make sure that all
> files that reference such data include the new <asm-offsets.h> file.
> 
> No other changes have been done yet, but it is obvious that similar
> changes / simplifications can be done for other, related macro
> definitions as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> ---
> v2: round global data size up to a multiple of 16 to guarantee
>     sufficient alignment of the initial stack.

Applied, thanks.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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