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From: Bedia, Vaibhav <vaibhav.bedia@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] BSS footprint of FAT very high - SPL issues
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:22:12 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FCCFB4CDC6E5564B9182F639FC356087035FB3155C@dbde02.ent.ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D4798E2.3050500@ti.com>

Hi Aneesh,

On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:54 AM, Aneesh V wrote:
> Dear Wolfgang,
> 
> I had been working on creating an MMC SPL for OMAP4. OMAP boards
> typically support booting from the FAT partition of a removable
> SD/MMC card. So, we need to have FAT support in the SPL. But I am
> having some difficulties in adding FAT support to SPL.   
> 
> BSS footprint of fat.c is very high. It has three buffers each of
> size 64KB. To workaround this problem I have done something like
> below(The way x-loader works around this problem today).  
> CONFIG_SYS_SPL_FAT_BUFFER_BASE is in SDRAM.Is this ok?
> 
[...]

I guess you will hit a similar issue with the networking related code is used (I am not sure if SPL uses it). That also requires a decent size of bss.

Is having a config option to specify the location of bss (like CONFIG_SYS_BSS_ADDR) better/acceptable?

Regards,
Vaibhav

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01  6:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-01  5:23 [U-Boot] BSS footprint of FAT very high - SPL issues Aneesh V
2011-02-01  6:52 ` Bedia, Vaibhav [this message]
2011-02-01  7:58   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01  8:26   ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01  8:35     ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 10:05       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01 10:18         ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 10:48           ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-01 12:43             ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 13:27               ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01 10:53     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11 21:16     ` Ulf Samuelsson
2011-02-11 22:15       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-09-13 21:40         ` Ulf Samuelsson
2011-09-28 20:28           ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-12  6:13       ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01  7:04 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-01  7:11   ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-01  8:00     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01  8:27     ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01  7:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-01  8:18   ` Aneesh V
2011-02-01  8:48     ` Bedia, Vaibhav
2011-02-01 10:03     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-02 13:17       ` Aneesh V
2011-02-02 13:37         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-02 14:01           ` Aneesh V
2011-02-02 15:14             ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-03 10:38               ` Aneesh V
2011-02-05  6:58                 ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11  6:28                   ` Aneesh V
2011-02-11  6:39                     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11  6:57                       ` Aneesh V
2011-02-11  8:15                         ` Albert ARIBAUD
2011-02-11  8:27                           ` Aneesh V
2011-02-02 21:01             ` Graeme Russ
2011-02-03  7:01               ` Aneesh V
2011-02-03 10:05                 ` Graeme Russ
2011-02-03  6:49             ` sughosh ganu
2011-02-03  7:22               ` Aneesh V
2011-02-15  8:44 ` Mike Frysinger

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