Hi Tom,
On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 5:12 PM Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been talking with Ilias for the last few hours. This still isn't
> right, it just happens to work in some cases, but not others. What's
> going on is that while we always have u-boot-nodtb.bin 8-byte aligned
> because while the BSS itself may end 8 byte aligned, we actually care
> about the size of the BSS being 8 byte aligned. Can you please try:
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds b/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
> index d780a5060774..dae8a1ec665b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
> +++ b/arch/arm/cpu/u-boot-spl.lds
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ SECTIONS
> _end = .;
>
> .bss __rel_dyn_start (OVERLAY) : {
> + . = ALIGN(8);
> __bss_start = .;
> *(.bss*)
> . = ALIGN(8);
>
> And see if it works at run time? hexdump'ing looks good. If so, I'll do
> something more broad to catch the SPL_SEPARATE_BSS=n case, and add the
> ASSERTS that are missing.
This fixes the boot on RV1103, thanks!
When you send a formal patch, feel free to add:
Reported-by: Fabio Estevam <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <[email protected]>
Thanks
