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

[ksi at koi8.net]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Kumar Gala wrote:

> 
> 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.

Off of 512K something like 1/3 is empty in e.g. MPC8548CDS. The very last
sector contains fixed location power-on boot vector, the beginning of those
512K has actual U-Boot code and the hole between them is big enough to fit
an entire sector for environment.

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