[U-Boot] [PATCH] corenet_ds: Update CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE to deal with growth in gd_t

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Oct 22 10:08:58 CEST 2010


On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:24 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:

> 
> On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:22 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 
>> Dear Kumar Gala,
>> 
>> In message <1287731621-19353-1-git-send-email-galak at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
>>> The recent change the env code added an additional 32 bytes into gd_t
>>> and that causes to grow pass the previous CONFIG_SYS_GBL_DATA_SIZE size.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
>> 
>> One thing I always wondered is why we don't simply use sizeof(gd_t)
>> instead.  What do you think?
> 
> I was wondering the same thing, let me try it and see what happens.

Requires asm-offset support like in kernel for us to this properly.  Will leave it as is for now and fix for post v2010.12

- k


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