[U-Boot] Build broken for bf538f-ezkit board - not enough ram

[Sonic Zhang]

Hi Vasili,

Applied.

Thanks,

Sonic

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Vasili Galka <vvv444 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 12 August 2014 10:12, Vasili Galka <vvv444 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Vasili Galka <vvv444 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Some of the recent commits on u-boot/master have broken the build of
>> >> bf538f-ezkit board. The build was fine for v2014.07-rc3. However, now
>> >> there is the following error:
>> >>
>> >> bfin-elf-ld.bfd: u-boot section `.bss' will not fit in region `ram'
>> >> bfin-elf-ld.bfd: region `ram' overflowed by 40 bytes
>> >>
>> >> I did not pin-point exactly what has increased the image size, and if
>> >> the growth is in the .text or .bss section.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe some of the features shall be dropped from the board config to
>> >> decrease the size.
>> >>
>> >> Also, may be related:
>> >> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2014-April/177928.html
>> >>
>> >> Best,
>> >> Vasili
>> >>
>> >
>> > This is still broken and now the bf533-stamp board seems to have the
>> > same
>> > error.
>> > Best,
>> > Vasili
>> >
>>
>> Can you fix it?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
>
>
> The only way I see to fix it is dropping some features from there boards
> to reduce the image size. As I'm not a user of these boards, I don't know
> what can be dropped. However, I can suggest sacrificing performance
> instead of features. Proposed patch:
>
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/379886/
>
> Best regards,
> Vasili