[U-Boot] [RFC PATCH 09/17] spl/85xx: new SPL support

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Tue Sep 25 01:51:40 CEST 2012


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 07:01:19PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:

> Update CONFIG_RAMBOOT and CONFIG_NAND_SPL references to accept CONFIG_SPL
> and CONFIG_SPL_BUILD, respectively.  CONFIG_NAND_SPL can be removed once
> the last mpc85xx nand_spl target is gone.
> 
> CONFIG_RAMBOOT will need to remain for other use cases, but it doesn't
> seem right to overload it for meaning SPL as well as nand_spl does.  Even
> if it's somewhat appropriate for the main u-boot, the SPL itself isn't
> (necessarily) ramboot, and we don't have separate configs for SPL and
> main u-boot.  It was also inconsistent, as other platforms such as
> mpc83xx didn't use CONFIG_RAMBOOT in this way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming at gmail.com>
[snip]
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-spl.lds
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..372195d
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-spl.lds
> @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
[snip]
> +OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc)
> +SECTIONS

Can we add MEMORY declarations like (some) of the ARM linker scripts do
so when we grow beyond the max size it's a link error?

-- 
Tom
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