[U-Boot-Users] moving bss outside of the image?

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> In message <2A2FDF2A-7B9D-496C-960C- 
> A7A0BDCE412C at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
>> Is there any concern with moving .bss outside of the image?  On 85xx
>> the images have historically been a fixed size (512k) and the .bss  
>> has
>> always lived inside of that region. We are now getting to a point
>> that .text + .data + .bss exceeds 512k.  Its easy enough to move .bss
>> right pass the 512k boundary and wanted to see if anyone can think of
>> a reason not to do this.
>
> You have to make sure  that  the  memory  map  is  still  OK  in  the
> relocated  system,  taking into account for config options like pRAM,
> shared log buffer, frame buffer, ...


Ok.  I think that all works out ok because _end is after .bss.

- k