[U-Boot-Custodians] [ANN] U-Boot v2020.01-rc4 released

[Joe Hershberger]

Hey Tom,

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:05 AM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:45:44AM -0600, Joe Hershberger wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 9:11 PM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > It's release day and here is v2020.01-rc4.  Yes, I'm still working on
> > > fixing all of the issues that pop up as I get the MTD clean-up series
> > > ready to go.  In fact, what I need to do at this point is grab the
> > > handful of size reduction patches that this has shown are worthwhile,
> > > then I can do the MTD series.  Then we're down to just fixing up
> > > misconversions where things got turned off.
> > >
> > > Once again, for a changelog,
> > > git log --merges v2020.01-rc3..v2020.01-rc4
> > > and as always, I ask for more details in the PRs people send me so I can
> > > put them in the merge commit.
> > >
> > > I'm planning on doing -rc5 on December 23rd with the release scheduled
> > > on January 6th.  Thanks all!
> >
> > I have a -net PR just about ready, but there are a few boards failing
> > for size. When can I expect the size reduction to drop?
>
> How much are they failing?  You can rebase on top of
> WIP/2019-12-03-master-imports and see if that's enough.  But also if

arm: + tbs2910
+u-boot.imx exceeds file size limit:
1356+  limit:  0x5fc00 bytes
1357+  actual: 0x60c00 bytes
1358+  excess: 0x1000 bytes

       arm:  +   am335x_boneblack_vboot
922+arm-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: u-boot-spl section `.u_boot_list' will
not fit in region `.sram'
923+arm-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: region `.sram' overflowed by 392 bytes
924+make[2]: *** [spl/u-boot-spl] Error 1
925+make[1]: *** [spl/u-boot-spl] Error 2
926+make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
927       arm:  +   am335x_evm
928+arm-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: u-boot-spl section `.u_boot_list' will
not fit in region `.sram'
929+arm-linux-gnueabi-ld.bfd: region `.sram' overflowed by 664 bytes
930+make[2]: *** [spl/u-boot-spl] Error 1
931+make[1]: *** [spl/u-boot-spl] Error 2
932+make: *** [sub-make] Error 2


> it's for packed member things, I'm not sure if that's the right approach
> vs disabling the warning like the Linux kernel does (and we do today,
> for clang).
>
> --
> Tom