[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 2/2] NS16550: buffer reads

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Oct 17 13:08:36 CEST 2011


Dear Simon Glass,

In message <1318742050-2201-2-git-send-email-sjg at chromium.org> you wrote:
...
> With it enabled, on ppc it's an extra 396 bytes of image size, and 1056
> bytes of BSS.
> 
> ARM note from Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> - ARM code size goes from
> 212 to 484 bytes (extra 272 bytes), BSS to 1056 bytes.

One problem I see is that the code size on some boards grows even if
the new option is not enabled.  Here a compare before and after
applying your patches (without any changes to the respective board
configurations):

 Configuring for AR405 board...
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
- 246058   12972   14636  273666   42d02 /work/wd/tmp-ppc/u-boot
+ 246062   12972   14636  273670   42d06 /work/wd/tmp-ppc/u-boot
 Configuring for CANBT board...
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
- 120710    8604    3876  133190   20846 /work/wd/tmp-ppc/u-boot
+ 120714    8604    3876  133194   2084a /work/wd/tmp-ppc/u-boot
 Configuring for pcs440ep board...
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
- 296191   19636  345088  660915   a15b3 /work/wd/tmp-ppc/u-boot
+ 296195   19636  345088  660919   a15b7 /work/wd/tmp-ppc/u-boot
...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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