Re: [U-Boot] [HELP] coldfire, bss.variable offset greater than __bss_end

10 Sep 2011


      Hi all,
i reply just to close the thread and to help each other that can have similar issues, this since i have seen other boards that can have the same issue.
The issue was related to my custom board, and more properly was that the linker added some other .bss.* variables after __bss_end__ , that of course u-boot was not relocating into sdram. Error was in my board-related u-boot.lds:
WRONG
__bss_start = .;
  .bss (NOLOAD)       :
  {
   _sbss = .;
   *(.sbss)
   *(.bss)  <----
   *(COMMON)
   . = ALIGN(4);
   _ebss = .;
  }
CORRECT
__bss_start = .;
  .bss (NOLOAD)       :
  {
   _sbss = .;
   *(.sbss*)
   *(.bss*)
   *(COMMON)
   . = ALIGN(4);
   _ebss = .;
  }
regards,
angelo
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [HELP] coldfire, bss.variable offset greater than __bss_end
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:41:58 +0200
From: Angelo Dureghello angelo70@gmail.com
To: U-Boot@lists.denx.de U-Boot@lists.denx.de
Hi all,
after a recent update and compiling u-boot, bootloader get locked trying to set a global variable, just after sdram relocation.
Exactly, the program lock here:
1529  void mem_malloc_init(ulong start, ulong size)
1530  {
1531	mem_malloc_start = start;   <<<---program paralize here
Tracing the variable offset in memory, i have seen this variable is located a little bit outside (higher address) of the total 16M SDRAM memory size.
Investigating further, in the map file, the issue seems to be that u-boot assign a memory space that is:
len = (ulong)&__bss_end__ - CONFIG_SYS_MONITOR_BASE;
But from the map file the variable seems to have an offset greater than __bss_end :
.bss.mem_malloc_start
                0xffc159c8        0x4
 .bss.mem_malloc_start
                0xffc159c8        0x4 common/libcommon.o
                0xffc159c8                mem_malloc_start
.....
.bss            0xffc13e00     0x1544
                0xffc13e00                _sbss = .
 *(.sbss)
 *(.bss)
 *(COMMON)
 COMMON         0xffc13e00        0x4 arch/m68k/lib/libm68k.o
                0xffc13e00                monitor_flash_len
u-boot.lds has been checked many times, i don't see any issue on it.
I am using this compiler:
m68k-elf-gcc --version
m68k-elf-gcc (GCC) 4.2.4
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Any help is really appreciated.
regards,
angelo