[coreboot] [PATCH]clean up bootblocksize handling in cbfstool, kconfig

[Maciej Pijanka]

On 12/11/2009, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> Myles Watson wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Maciej Pijanka
>> <maciej.pijanka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/11/2009, Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> This doesn't seem like it should be a config option any more.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Ideally, it will become some automatic "as small as possible"
>>>>> configuration.
>>>>> Unfortunately ld doesn't allow to align everything to an upper
>>>>> boundary,
>>>>> so
>>>>> this requires the link-twice trick or so.
>>>>> So for now, I'd like to keep it there - people might want to tweak it.
>>>>> As
>>>>> an
>>>>> example (which made me look into this in the first place), someone
>>>>> (agaran)
>>>>> on #coreboot wanted to use a smaller bootblock. Until this
>>>>> automatically
>>>>> happens, we'll have to allow this to change.
>>>>>
>>>> Sounds good.
>>>>
>>> For me, ROMBASE must be at 0xFFFE000, that is 4G - romchip size (128k).
>>> if i try to set it to anything else i get some errors while build like:
>>>
>> It broke for me too.  I'm getting a 4GB bootblock.  I should have
>> build/boot tested it.
>
> Are you guys using the util/crossgcc compiler?

negative, before this change it was working with compiler i use, after
change and changing ROMBASE to 4G-128k, works again, if i add crude ld
hack i posted previously, i even can make bootblock more tight.

best regards
Maciej

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