[U-Boot] Pull request: nand flash

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Fri Oct 11 00:52:57 CEST 2013


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On 10/10/2013 06:10 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 15:18 -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On 10/10/2013 03:00 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:52:14 +0200, Albert ARIBAUD
>>> <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:45:17 -0400, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>> On 10/10/2013 04:12 AM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Tom,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 21:45:25 -0400, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 01:29:55PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sorry for the lateness, but here are some MTD/UBI bugfixes.  They've
>>>>>>>> been acked by Stefan Roese.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The following changes since commit b770e88a6c2548727f0d57a3e9e8bb0830f977b5:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   Fix number base handling of "load" command (2013-10-07 15:54:18 -0400)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   git://git.denx.de/u-boot-nand-flash.git master
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> for you to fetch changes up to cc734f5ab26134e5e8d57c34edc257c89ac5b1d2:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   cmd_ubi: add write.part command, to write a volume in multiple parts (2013-10-09 12:52:22 -0500)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>> Paul Burton (4):
>>>>>>>>       mtd: driver _read() returns max_bitflips; mtd_read() returns -EUCLEAN
>>>>>>>>       cmd_mtdparts: use 64 bits for flash size, partition size & offset
>>>>>>>>       cmd_ubi: use int64_t volume size for 'ubi create'
>>>>>>>>       cmd_ubi: add write.part command, to write a volume in multiple parts
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> OK, problem:
>>>>>>> Author: Paul Burton <paul.burton at imgtec.com>
>>>>>>> Date:   Wed Sep 4 15:16:57 2013 +0100
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     cmd_mtdparts: use 64 bits for flash size, partition size & offset
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Causes a number of platform such as am3517_crane to fail to build with
>>>>>>> recent toolchains with errors such as:
>>>>>>> /opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.7-2013.03-20130313_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd:
>>>>>>> error:
>>>>>>> /opt/linaro/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.7-2013.03-20130313_linux/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.7.3/libgcc.a(bpabi.o)
>>>>>>> uses VFP register arguments, u-boot does not
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which we need to sort out, one way or another.  Albert, any quick ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Builds OK on my side, both nand-flash/master and a merge of nf/master
>>>>>> and u-boot/master, with gcc version 4.7.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-1ubuntu1)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tom, can you specify which toolchain shows the issue?
>>>>>
>>>>> Both ELDK 5.3 and Linaro 2013.03 (one TI has picked for some things) do
>>>>> the above.  ELDK 5.2 is OK
>>>>
>>>> I'll test with ELDK5.3 in about an hour.
>>>
>>> I've installed eldk-eglibc-i686-arm-toolchain-gmae-5.3.sh and can build
>>> am3517_crane on both nand-flash/master as well as on a merge of
>>> u-boot/master and nand-flash/master
>>
>> Here we go, armhf toolchains trigger this problem because, I suspect, we
>> aren't enforcing a flag to say "no, really, no hfp here" or similar.
> 
> Any idea why this patchset triggers it?  Does the 64-bit stuff cause
> something from libgcc to be used that previously wasn't?  There is some
> open-coded 64-bit division, but it's by a power of two so GCC should
> convert it to a shift (and the ability to do 64-bit shifts was already
> required by print_size()).

I'm not sure what parts of this math exactly cause things to go all
nutty, but I suspect the answer is that we should be enforcing
- -msomething or another than hf defaults to using (un)setting.

- -- 
Tom
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