Re: [U-Boot-Users] moving bss outside of the image?

29 Jul 2008


      In message 2A2FDF2A-7B9D-496C-960C-A7A0BDCE412C@kernel.crashing.org you wrote:
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Is there any concern with moving .bss outside of the image?  On 85xx  
the images have historically been a fixed size (512k) and the .bss has  
always lived inside of that region. We are now getting to a point  
that .text + .data + .bss exceeds 512k.  Its easy enough to move .bss  
right pass the 512k boundary and wanted to see if anyone can think of  
a reason not to do this.
You have to make sure  that  the  memory  map  is  still  OK  in  the
relocated  system,  taking into account for config options like pRAM,
shared log buffer, frame buffer, ...
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