[U-Boot] sequoia_config build failure?

[Kumar Gala]

On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:00 AM, Stefan Roese wrote:

> Hi Kumar,
>
> On Friday 31 October 2008, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> When I try building the sequoia_config I get:
>>
>> ld: .bss section too big, overlaps .ppcenv section. Please update  
>> your
>> confguration: CFG_MONITOR_BASE, CFG_MONITOR_LEN and TEXT_BASE may  
>> need
>> to be modified.
>> ld: .bss section too big, overlaps .ppcenv section. Please update  
>> your
>> confguration: CFG_MONITOR_BASE, CFG_MONITOR_LEN and TEXT_BASE may  
>> need
>> to be modified.
>> ld: .bss section too big, overlaps .ppcenv section. Please update  
>> your
>> confguration: CFG_MONITOR_BASE, CFG_MONITOR_LEN and TEXT_BASE may  
>> need
>> to be modified.
>>
>> This is with gcc-4.3.0 and binutils 2.18.50.0.6 on a fedora ppc64
>> box.  Does this build for others?  It seems v2008.10 and top of tree
>> have this issue.
>
> TOT builds fine here:
>
> [stefan at kubuntu u-boot (master)]$ ./MAKEALL sequoia
> Configuring for sequoia board...
>   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 342024   24196  333824  700044   aae8c ./u-boot
>
> That's with ELDK 4.2 (GCC 4.2.2).
>
> But without thinking too hard about it, my feeling is that
> this "ppcenv_assert" in the sequoia u-boot.lds linker script is  
> incorrect.
> BSS is not really part of the resulting U-Boot image.

and this is a discussion I want to have w/Wolfgang.  I agree with you  
that impacting the image w/bss size seems wrong to me.

- k