From: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] image and bss size decrease
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:08:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201303111008.29412.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362826391-16215-1-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Hi Sascha,
Sascha Hauer wrote:
> [...]
> Also we make the bss smaller by allocating the FILE table and
> the gpio_desc table dynamically. The bss size is may become
> a problem on boards which run from SRAM. Here the malloc pool
> is in the big SDRAM area, but the bss is in SRAM, so it makes
> sense to move the big tables from bss to SDRAM by using malloc.
It would also be possible to instruct the linker to locate the BSS in the big
SDRAM area. But that might interfere with very running early code using
variables in BSS while the SDRAM isn't up and running yet.
jbe
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-09 10:53 Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 10:53 ` [PATCH 01/10] mips: initialize malloc pool before start_barebox() Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 10:53 ` [PATCH 02/10] nios: " Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 10:53 ` [PATCH 03/10] openrisc: " Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 10:53 ` [PATCH 04/10] blackfin: " Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 10:53 ` [PATCH 05/10] x86: " Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 10:53 ` [PATCH 06/10] bus: Make struct device a pointer Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 10:53 ` [PATCH 07/10] command: remove list_head from struct command Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 10:53 ` [PATCH 08/10] command: remove statically initialized aliases Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 10:53 ` [PATCH 09/10] fs: allocate FILE table dynamically Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 10:53 ` [PATCH 10/10] gpio: allocate gpio_desc " Sascha Hauer
2013-03-09 18:38 ` [PATCH] image and bss size decrease Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-03-10 10:02 ` Sascha Hauer
2013-03-11 9:08 ` Juergen Beisert [this message]
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