[U-Boot] [PATCH 01/16] ARM: remove vpac270 board support

[Masahiro Yamada]

2015-07-28 7:31 GMT+09:00 Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>:
> On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 05:58:17 PM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> 2015-07-26 17:49 GMT+09:00 Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>:
>> > On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 10:26:45 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>> >> The board-specific linker script board/vpac270/u-boot-spl.lds
>> >> obstructs further cleanup.  This board has not been converted to
>> >> Generic Board yet in spite of the long-term warning.  Remove.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
>> >> ---
>> >
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> >> Marek,
>> >>
>> >> If you want to keep this board:
>> >>   - Please convert it to Generic Board
>> >>   - Please use arch-common linker script
>> >
>> > Yeah, I want to keep this board, but please give me a bit of time
>> > to do this. This one and the zipitz2 are the two PXA boards which
>> > I have and want to keep.
>> >
>> > I recall the u-boot-spl.lds was really needed to keep the size of
>> > the SPL under 1kiB ; without this the board was unbootable when
>> > using the OneNAND.
>>
>> I will drop this patch when I send v2.
>>
>>
>> BTW, I tried building vpac270 ONENAND.
>> It is already over 1kiB.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> $ git describe
>> v2015.07-307-g2647394
>> $ make vpac270_ond_256_defconfig
>> #
>> # configuration written to .config
>> #
>> $ make -s CROSS_COMPILE=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-
>> ===================== WARNING ======================
>> Please convert this board to generic board.
>> Otherwise it will be removed by the end of 2014.
>> See doc/README.generic-board for further information
>> ====================================================
>> $ ls -l spl/u-boot-spl.bin
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 masahiro masahiro 2828 Jul 28 00:53 spl/u-boot-spl.bin
>>
>>
>>
>> It is over 2KB.
>
> So the hardware spilt already? Aww :-(
>
> I wonder, maybe converting this to TPL might be the correct solution ?


Maybe, if you could split it into two images.




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada