[Re: [PATCH 0/6] sbc8641d: misc fixes and generic board enablement] On 17/10/2015 (Sat 17:50) Tom Rini wrote:
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 04:40:25PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
The sbc8641d is not really a state of the art board anymore, but it does have the distinctive feature of being one of the relatively few SMP powerpc boards around. Combined with its small form factor, it remains a useful testing platform. So here we enable the generic board support so that it can remain in tree.
It turns out that in bringing the board forward, we've run into the size limit for the image, due to inevitable expansion, which led to some odd testing behaviour, depending on .config settings etc. Here we increase the image space from two 128k sectors to three, so we should be good for as long as the board remains relevant now.
Thanks for finding this. I am going to grab this for the release and I might re-word a commit or two. I have one ask tho, can you look at using CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT, perhaps in a generic way so that we catch more "oops, the board grew too big, run-time now will fail!" issues?
Yeah, I'll have a look -- I was kind of surprised that it didn't scream at me when this happened during the build, since I'd think we have all the information at our fingertips to do a build bug on or similar, and I can't be the 1st one bitten by this.
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-- Tom