[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 09/13] hawkboard: Modify to work with generic relocation

[Sughosh Ganu]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Sughosh Ganu <urwithsughosh at gmail.com>wrote:

> hi Simon,
> On Mon Feb 20, 2012 at 05:32:51PM -0800, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Add use of common/ and lib/ libraries for the SPL stage, and
> > add the new link symbol required for generic relocation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > ---
> > Changes in v4:
> > - Split out hawkboard changes into new patch
> >
> >  board/davinci/da8xxevm/u-boot-spl-hawk.lds |    1 +
> >  include/configs/hawkboard.h                |    2 ++
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>
<snip>


>  Btw, i had quite a substantial increase in the spl image size with
>  these additions with a 4.5 based toolchain(will provide exact
>  toolchain details and size difference tonight). Building with a 4.6
>  based toolchain got the size increase down by quite a bit. Although i
>  don't have any size restrictions with spl on my board, this could be
>  a problem on boards which have these restrictions with toolchains
>  before 4.6.
>

gcc(arm-none-linux-gnueabi) -- 4.5.2
binutils -- 2.20

spl size without this patch
   text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
   5208        620        464       6292       1894    spl/u-boot-spl

spl size with this patch
   text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
   8897        620        476       9993       2709    spl/u-boot-spl


gcc(arm-none-eabi) -- 4.6.2
binutils -- 2.21

spl size without this patch
   text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
   4692        620        464     5776      1690    spl/u-boot-spl

spl size with this patch
   text       data        bss        dec        hex    filename
   4812        620      476       5908      1714    spl/u-boot-spl

-sughosh