[U-Boot] [ARM] one warning left for all ARM boards

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Jul 10 03:53:43 CEST 2012


Dear Albert ARIBAUD,

> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2012 14:07:22 -0700, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:48:18PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > Dear Albert ARIBAUD,
> > > 
> > > In message <20120709174210.0bc0cef5 at aari01-12> you wrote:
> > > > With the latest commits on u-boot/master, two obnoxious "attention"
> > > > messages were removed from ARM builds, but one still remains:
> > > > 
> > > > attention : -fstack-usage not supported for this target [enabled by
> > > > default]
> > > 
> > > As recommended on the ML I reverted the commit that caused this
> > > trouble, waiting to see a new (more carefully tested) version to be
> > > applied instead.
> > > 
> > > At the moment ARM is build clean, as far as I can tell.
> > > 
> > > If nobody adds any new pull requests very soon now, I'll go for -rc1.
> > 
> > What do we want to do about the USB issue (on ARM platforms, with EHCI,
> > with >32byte alignment requirements, if dcache isn't build-time
> > disabled, USB is unusable, a change from previous releases), for this
> > release?  Are we going to hope the alignment issues can be flushed out
> > and fixed well enough before the final release?  Should we go with
> > disable the dcache now, continue working on it for the next?
> 
> What are the chances that the issue be fixed?

Low ... this is some deep crap that's growing through uboot as whole :-( And 
it's not only USB.

> Amicalement,

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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