[U-Boot] SPL binary too large for OMAP4460 OCM

Sricharan R r.sricharan at ti.com
Wed Sep 4 10:56:14 CEST 2013


On Wednesday 04 September 2013 02:18 PM, Michael Trimarchi wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Sricharan R <r.sricharan at ti.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 04 September 2013 01:01 PM, bin4ry wrote:
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I need to add functionality to the SPL code. I tried to implement in a
>>> memory-saving way, however, the SPL is about 45 kB after compilation. To
>>> get compilation working, I had to set CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE to (45 *
>>> 1024). Now, the SPL as well as u-boot won't boot. After the device'
>>> (PandaBoard ES - OMAP4460) reset, nothing happens regarding it's output
>>> on terminal.
>>>
>>> My question: is it theoretically possible to to establish a successfully
>>> booting SPL with ~45 kB in size for this device? The device'
>>> on-chip-memory is 56kB so it could fit in there. If so, what needs to be
>>> configured / tuned to get it working? Are there any other features I
>>> could omit from the binary to make it smaller?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> -b
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>>  Do you have a Secure device or GP ?
>>
> if it is Pandaboard? No he has not. I have increased up to 40Kb and it
> works with serial boot and
> sdcard/emmc boot.
 Sorry i missed to read PANDA. So it is anyways GP.
 and you changed the CONFIG_SPL_TEXT_BASE as well right ?

Regards,
 Sricharan


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