[U-Boot] 85xx: MPC8536DS board does not build

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Mon Aug 10 21:06:11 CEST 2009


On Aug 10, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Zang Roy-R61911 wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kumar Gala [mailto:galak at kernel.crashing.org]
>> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 13:41 PM
>> To: Wolfgang Denk
>> Cc: U-Boot-Users ML; Zang Roy-R61911
>> Subject: Re: 85xx: MPC8536DS board does not build
>>
>>
>> On Aug 10, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Kumar Gala,
>>>
>>> In message <0EB7516A-2F14-42F7-
>>> A6ED-555ADFAB3105 at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Allocate more space for U-Boot?
>>>>
>>>> I might turn of BEDBUG as its never been properly enabled on
>>>> e500/85xx
>>>> platforms.
>>>
>>> Is there any problem with the bigger image which I don't understand
>>> yet? Normally we just move down the TEXT_BASE by a sector,
>> and that's
>>> it.
>>
>> Not specifically, its just that ever 85xx image to date has been
>> 512k.  I'm just trying to avoid this being the first one that
>> changes
>> that historic fact.  Especially since compilers like gcc-4.3 seem to
>> be able to fit the size in 512k.
> We may have more requirements to support graphic in u-boot.
> Sooner and later, the size will exceed 512K. Should we have some plan
> for this?

So if we are going to increase the limit from 512k do we go to 768k or  
1M?  (Sector size on the board appears to 128k)

I would also like to know how big the flashes are on some of the other  
85xx boards that u-boot supports.

- k


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