[U-Boot] [RFC/PATCH] Makefile: allow boards to check file size limits
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Tue Oct 19 23:29:11 CEST 2010
Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message <1287025103-26681-1-git-send-email-vapier at gentoo.org> you wrote:
> Boards often have a reserved size limit on the flash where they're stored.
> Sometimes during upgrades or config changes, those limits are exceeded,
> but no one notices until they try to upgrade and the limit screws things
> up. Either not enough of U-Boot is written to flash (and so the reboot
> fails), or too much is written (and so things after it get clobbered).
>
> So allow boards to declare a size limit (in bytes) and have the build
> system check it while building.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
> ---
> Makefile | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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