[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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