Dear Mike Frysinger, In message <1287025103-26681-1-git-send-email-vap...@gentoo.org> you wrote: > Boards often have a reserved size limit on the flash where they're stored. > Sometimes during upgrades or config changes, those limits are exceeded, > but no one notices until they try to upgrade and the limit screws things > up. Either not enough of U-Boot is written to flash (and so the reboot > fails), or too much is written (and so things after it get clobbered). > > So allow boards to declare a size limit (in bytes) and have the build > system check it while building. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> > --- > Makefile | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index de4ceb9..ca12d78 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -304,6 +304,21 @@ __LIBS := $(subst $(obj),,$(LIBS)) $(subst > $(obj),,$(LIBBOARD)) > ######################################################################### > ######################################################################### > > +ifneq ($(CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT),) > +BOARD_SIZE_CHECK = \ > + @actual=`wc -c $@ | awk '{print $$1}'`; \
How about using stat -c '%s' to get the file size in a single command, without need to actually read all the data? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "No matter where you go, there you are..." - Buckaroo Banzai _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot