[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/2] powerpc/mpc85xx:Avoid fix address of bootpg section

[Prabhakar Kushwaha]

Hi All,

I just want to share my concern with respect to this patch.
This patch removed hard-coded value for 0x80000 and use 
CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN.

There were many Freescale boards config which don't have correct 
CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN(due to size increase from 512KB to 768KB). I 
fixed them in subsequent patch.

This linker file is being used by many other powerpc boards/platforms. 
Because of hard-coded value of 0x80000 in linker file, there boards are 
booting till now.
but after this patch,  there is a possibility there boards may not boot 
because of wrong value defined for CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN by board 
maintainers.

I will request powerpc board maintainers to check config file for 
correct value of CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN.

Regards,
Prabhakar

On 3/31/2014 3:31 PM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
> It is not necessary for bootpg to be present at text + 512KB.
> With increase of u-boot size (768KB), bootpg section's address
> cannot be fixed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <prabhakar at freescale.com>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-nand.lds |    8 +++++++-
>   arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot.lds      |    6 +++++-
>   2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-nand.lds b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-nand.lds
> index df3b0f9..d77a6dc 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-nand.lds
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot-nand.lds
> @@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
>    * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0+
>    */
>   
> +#include "config.h"	/* CONFIG_BOARDDIR */
> +
> +#ifndef CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN
> +#define CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN	0x80000
> +#endif
> +
>   OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc)
>   /* Do we need any of these for elf?
>      __DYNAMIC = 0;    */
> @@ -76,7 +82,7 @@ SECTIONS
>       KEEP(arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/start.o (.bootpg))
>     } :text = 0xffff
>   
> -  . = ADDR(.text) + 0x80000;
> +  . = ADDR(.text) + CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN;
>   
>     __bss_start = .;
>     .bss (NOLOAD)       :
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot.lds b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot.lds
> index 2af4c80..99473dd 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot.lds
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/u-boot.lds
> @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
>   #define RESET_VECTOR_ADDRESS	0xfffffffc
>   #endif
>   
> +#ifndef CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN
> +#define CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN	0x80000
> +#endif
> +
>   OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc)
>   
>   PHDRS
> @@ -84,7 +88,7 @@ SECTIONS
>     {
>       KEEP(arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/start.o (.bootpg))
>     } :text = 0xffff
> -  . = ADDR(.text) + 0x80000;
> +  . = ADDR(.text) + CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_LEN;
>   #else
>     .bootpg RESET_VECTOR_ADDRESS - 0xffc :
>     {