powerpc/mpc55xxevb build failure

[Gedare Bloom]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Joel Sherrill
<joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
> On 11/25/2013 8:57 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> On 2013-11-25 15:32, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Sebastian Huber
>>> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>  wrote:
>>>>> On 2013-11-23 17:11, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11/23/2013 9:20 AM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> In fsdosfsname01 I get the following failure during linking
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> link command:
>>>>>>>>>>> powerpc-rtems4.11-gcc -B../../../../../mpc5566evb/lib/   -specs
>>>>>>>>>>> bsp_specs -qrtems -mcpu=8540 -meabi -msdata -fno-common -msoft-float
>>>>>>>>>>> -D__ppc_generic -mstrict-align -O2 -g -fno-keep-inline-functions -Wall
>>>>>>>>>>> -Wmissing-prototypes -Wimplicit-function-declaration
>>>>>>>>>>> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs    -mcpu=8540 -meabi -msdata
>>>>>>>>>>> -fno-common -msoft-float -D__ppc_generic -mstrict-align   -o
>>>>>>>>>>> fsdosfsname01.exe init.o ramdisk_support.o
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> failure:
>>>>>>>>>>> linkcmds.base:344 cannot move location counter backwards (from
>>>>>>>>>>> 000000004002c5e4 to 0000000040020000)
>>>>>>>>>>> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> This is with HEAD (with the latest patch applied to this bsp) and
>>>>>>>>>>> current RSB-built tool set.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This looks like a memory region is full and this test won't fit.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, the test is too large.  Maybe guard this test with BSP_SMALL_MEMORY?
>>>>>
>>> That will work for compiling. How hard would making a similar test
>>> with a smaller image be? So that the functionality could be tested on
>>> the board if someone wanted?
>>>
>>
>> I don't know how hard it is to shrink the image and I don't have time to find
>> this out at the moment.
>>
>
> Gedare. are these variants declaring some large RAM area to use as a
> RAM disk? Maybe it needs to be shrunk for small memory BSPs.
>
Not declaring, but actually compiling the filesystem image into the
executable binary.

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