[U-Boot] Resets on mx6qsabrelite

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Tue Sep 25 05:03:26 CEST 2012


Dear Sinan Akman,

> On 09/24/2012 08:42 PM, Eric Nelson wrote:
> > On 09/24/2012 05:22 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:03:27PM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Tom Rini<trini at ti.com>  wrote:
> >>>> I lmgtfy.com'd Marek, but for everyone,
> >>>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-July/127260.html is the
> >>>> start
> >>>> of the thread.
> >>> 
> >>> I am still getting the same issue on 2012.10-rc1.
> >>> 
> >>> Is anyone else having issues to load a kernel with 2012.10-rc1 on
> >>> sabrelite?
> >> 
> >> I bet everyone with a sufficiently recent toolchain is.  I'm seeing this
> >> on TI boards when I use the Linaro toolchain rather than ELDK-5.2.
> >> Albert, what do you want to do about this?
> > 
> > That adds up, since I've been building with an old one (4.4) and
> > haven't been seeing resets.
> 
> FWIW Same here, Nitrogen6X, gcc 4.4.6 based toolchain, 2012.10-rc1
> no resets.

That's because these ancient (and crap ... everything between 4.2 and 4.6 was 
quite crap on arm) toolchains don't generate unaligned string starts in .rodata 
. New toolchains do, yet I have no idea how to fix it ... probably Albert might 
know?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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