[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/5] microblaze: Move architecture to use generic board init

Michal Simek michal.simek at xilinx.com
Tue Feb 3 10:26:59 CET 2015


Hi Simon,

On 02/03/2015 12:58 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On 2 February 2015 at 08:46, Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com> wrote:
>> Compile code with -fPIC to get GOT. Do not build SPL
>> with fPIC because it increasing SPL size for nothing.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Use dram_init instead of init_func_ram()
>>   Suggested by Simon
>>
>> This code requires
>> "common/board_r: manual relocation for cmd table"
>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-January/201965.html
>>
>> Not fully happy about it because compare to previous solution adds
>> almost +60k on size for doing the same thing as before.
>>
>> 15: microblaze: Move architecture to use generic board init
>> microblaze: (for 1/1 boards)  all +52268.0  bss -4.0  data +11724.0
>> rodata -2676.0  spl/u-boot-spl:all +36.0  spl/u-boot-spl:data +36.0
>> text +43224.0
>>             microblaze-generic:  all +52268  bss -4  data +11724  rodata
>> -2676  spl/u-boot-spl:all +36  spl/u-boot-spl:data +36  text +43224
>>
>> Depends on:
>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2015-January/203277.html
> 
> Yes that seems crazy.
> 
> You can use -B to see what code is added. Can you figure it out?

I was checking this with our toolchain guy and expectation with fPIC/fPIE
is 20% bigger code and I am below that.

I was checking -B output too and it is adding bytes to every function
that's why the sum is that big.

Thanks,
Michal




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