[PATCH 00/20] ppc: qemu: Add eTSEC support

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Wed Mar 3 03:11:45 CET 2021


Hi Simon,

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 9:53 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Bin,
>
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 18:08, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 11:35 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > QEMU ppce500 machine can dynamically instantiate an eTSEC device
> > > if "-device eTSEC" is given to QEMU.
> > >
> > > This series updates the fixed-link ethernet PHY driver as well as
> > > the Freescale eTSEC driver to support the QEMU ppce500 board.
> > >
> > > Based-on:
> > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/?series=230985
> > >
> > > This series is avaiable at u-boot-x86/eTSEC for testing.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Azure results say there are several ARM boards fail to build due to
> > size overflow with this series.
> > https://dev.azure.com/bmeng/GitHub/_build/results?buildId=334&view=results
> >
> > How do we handle this?
>
> The one I looked at, imx6dl_mamoj seems to be 0xbc5 over the limit.
> That's a very large growth, indicating that your series is doing
> something odd, perhaps?
>
> I suppose you know this, but you can use:
>
> buildman -b try imx6dl_mamoj
> buildman -b try -sS
>
> to see which commit creates the size growth, and -B to see which functions.

Thanks, so it's caused by this patch:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20210302153451.19440-17-bmeng.cn@gmail.com/

16: dm: core: Correctly read <ranges> of simple-bus
       arm:  +   imx6dl_mamoj
       arm: (for 1/1 boards) all +274.0 bss -32.0 spl/u-boot-spl:all
+3232.0 spl/u-boot-spl:data +24.0 spl/u-boot-spl:rodata +2180.0
spl/u-boot-spl:text +1028.0 text +306.0
            imx6dl_mamoj   : all +274 bss -32 spl/u-boot-spl:all +3232
spl/u-boot-spl:data +24 spl/u-boot-spl:rodata +2180
spl/u-boot-spl:text +1028 text +306
               spl-u-boot-spl: add: 9/-1, grow: 1/0 bytes: 1070/-24 (1046)
                 function                                   old     new   delta
                 __of_translate_address                       -     404    +404
                 fdt_read_range                               -     208    +208
                 of_bus_default_map                           -     148    +148
                 of_bus_default_translate                     -     114    +114
                 fdt_read_prop                                -      66     +66
                 fdt_support_default_count_cells              -      52     +52
                 fdt_getprop_u32_default_node                 -      36     +36
                 of_busses                                    -      24     +24
                 fdt_translate_address                        -      12     +12
                 simple_bus_post_bind                        52      58      +6
                 ofnode_read_u32_array                       24       -     -24
               u-boot: add: 3/-1, grow: 1/0 bytes: 316/-24 (292)
                 function                                   old     new   delta
                 fdt_read_range                               -     208    +208
                 fdt_read_prop                                -      66     +66
                 fdt_getprop_u32_default_node                 -      36     +36
                 simple_bus_post_bind                        52      58      +6
                 ofnode_read_u32_array                       24       -     -24


But this patch is a bug fix. I am not sure how we can avoid the size increase.

Regards,
Bin


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