[U-Boot] build error: "bfd: u-boot-spl section `.rodata' will not fit in region `.sram'"

[U.Mutlu]

I updated my local git source tree, but now I get this error
with stock Lamobo_R1_defconfig and w/o any changes to .config:

arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd: u-boot-spl section `.rodata' will not fit in 
region `.sram'
arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld.bfd: region `.sram' overflowed by 1176 bytes
scripts/Makefile.spl:384: recipe for target 'spl/u-boot-spl' failed
make[1]: *** [spl/u-boot-spl] Error 1
Makefile:1689: recipe for target 'spl/u-boot-spl' failed
make: *** [spl/u-boot-spl] Error 2

$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.