[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] sbc8641d: misc fixes and generic board enablement

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Oct 17 23:50:21 CEST 2015


On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 04:40:25PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> The sbc8641d is not really a state of the art board anymore, but it
> does have the distinctive feature of being one of the relatively few
> SMP powerpc boards around.  Combined with its small form factor, it
> remains a useful testing platform.  So here we enable the generic
> board support so that it can remain in tree.
> 
> It turns out that in bringing the board forward, we've run into the
> size limit for the image, due to inevitable expansion, which led
> to some odd testing behaviour, depending on .config settings etc.
> Here we increase the image space from two 128k sectors to three,
> so we should be good for as long as the board remains relevant now.

Thanks for finding this.  I am going to grab this for the release and I
might re-word a commit or two.  I have one ask tho, can you look at
using CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT, perhaps in a generic way so that we catch
more "oops, the board grew too big, run-time now will fail!" issues?

-- 
Tom
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