[U-Boot] [ARM] Rollback *again* -- 5 patches PLUS 31 patches...

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Hi Benoît,

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:33:35 +0200 (CEST), Benoît Thébaudeau
<benoit.thebaudeau at advansee.com> wrote:

> Hi Albert,
> 
> On Thursday, April 11, 2013 6:30:58 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> > Hi Albert,
> > 
> > On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:25:34 +0200, Albert ARIBAUD
> > <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Older toolchain and PPC incompatibilities appeared in the last two
> > > additions to ToT ARM. To avoid non-bisectability, ToT has been rolled
> > > back from abbecf4c87 to ae74b65987. This removes
> > > 
> > > abbecf4 ARM: Fix __bss_start and __bss_end in linker scripts
> > > 
> > > (HIDDEN not known by most binutils 2.22 or older ones)
> > > 
> > > aad17a2 ARM: fix CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE semantics
> > > 72c1601 smdk5250, snow: fix CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE semantics
> > > 55e46fc da850evm, da850_am18xxevm: fix CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE semantics
> > > 0502854 cam_enc_4xx: fix CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE semantics
> > > 
> > > (PPC builds fail because --pad-to receives an expr, not a constant)
> > 
> > Actually, the failure was not due to this series, but to patch
> > 16/30 of Benoît's series. In agreement with Tom, rolling further back,
> > removing the recent TI PR merge and all of Benoît's series.
> > 
> > Benoît, can you fix 16/30 wrt PPC building? If you provide branches, I
> > or Tom can do tests.
> > 
> > Once v12 is ready, I'll apply it back, then the TI PR, then the
> > __bss_end patch, then the SPL max size series, this one list in order
> > to give us time to choose how overall SPL text+data+rodata+BSS
> > size testing should be done.
> 
> OK, I'll do that. I need to know:
>  - which board fails,

P1021RDB-PC_NAND

>  - where to find the toolchain binaries ready to use for PPC (Ubuntu package?),

Toolchain is ELDK 5.2.1 for powerpc (installs in /opt, need to set
PATH=...:/opt/eldk-5.2.1/powerpc/sysroots/i686-eldk-linux/usr/bin/powerpc-linux,
ARCH=powerpc, and CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-

>  - if all other arches have been build-tested in order to avoid new issues
>    popping out later.

Tom?

> Best regards,
> Benoît


Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.