[coreboot] [PATCH] clean up bootblocksize handling in cbfstool, kconfig
Maciej Pijanka
maciej.pijanka at gmail.com
Tue Nov 24 15:34:28 CET 2009
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> Am 12.11.2009 19:13, schrieb Myles Watson:
>> This patch saves 28K on my s2895, and 55K on qemu. Anybody have a
>> strong objection to that? Are we trying to have bootblock size be
>> constant for each board? Does it mess up future plans for backwards
>> compatibility?
>>
> Having a good automatic way to minimize the bootblock size is very
> useful. As for backwards compatibility, what do you mean - updates? The
> bootblock complicates any attempt to do safe updates currently. This
> change won't improve it, but it won't make it worse.
>> It uses an alignment of 256 bytes. Is that sufficient? Is it necessary?
>>
> Should be fine.
>
> My only issue is that I don't know if its behaviour is stable. ld
> prefers to work from bottom to top in the address space and this
> solution might interfere.
> How can we get an "official" statement if this method is supported or
> just luck that it works right now? A mail to the binutils list?
Anyone tried to confirm if this method is supported or not?
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Maciej Pijanka
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