[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] mpq101: initial support for Mercury Computer Systems MPQ101 board

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Alex Dubov,

In message <546160.74882.qm at web37605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> you wrote:
> 
> 1. I want to fit an environment and the bootloader into a single flash
> sector.

This is a very bad idea as it will open a window brick your system at
each and every "saveenv" command.

I strongly recommend not to do that.

> 3. If I don't fix up the ppcenv starting address, the resulting u-boot
> image will shrink by the environment size and won't start on sector
> boundary itself.
> 4. Other boards use handcrafted ld scripts to fit environments at right
> boundaries.

If you stop doing 1., all other problems will just disappear.

> That's why I need the LDFLAGS in question.
> If not in config.mk, where am I supposed to put them?
> Custom ld script is definitely an overshoot in this and other similar
> cases.

If you really insist in such an unreliablke configuration, a custom
linker script would IMO be better, as it would make the image layout
more visible.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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