Wrong barebox_image_size value

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 22:30 Thu 26 Sep     , Rostislav Lisovy wrote:
> Dear barebox developers and users;
> I am compiling barebox for freescale-imx53-smd board. My issue is,
> that the image does not contain the correct size record.
> The "bootloader size" needed by the flashing tool is initialized in
> freescale-mx53-smd/flash_header.c, in structure flash_header,
> field .boot_data.size.
> Formerly there used to be a hardcoded value 0x40000, nowadays we use
> DCD_BAREBOX_SIZE which expands into (barebox_image_size + 4095), where
> "barebox_image_size" has real size computed by the linker.
> When the value .boot_data.size is filled by hand (as 0x40000), correct
> value is stored in the barebox image.
> Proof: hexdump -s 0x24 -n 4 barebox-flash-image
> 0000024 0000 0004
> 
> however if .boot_data.size = DCD_BAREBOX_SIZE,
> $ hexdump -s 0x24 -n 4 barebox-flash-image
> 0000024 0fff 0000
> where this 0xfff is the "+4095" added to round the value. (I am pretty
> sure the offset into the image used by hexdump is correct).
> 
> The barebox version I am using most recent git, branch master.
> The compiler (maybe here is the point of failure) is
> arm-cortex_a8-linux-gnueabi-gcc (crosstool-NG hg+default-86a8d1d467c8)
> 4.4.6.

do you compile a relocation binary?

if yes the barebox size is 0 for the linker script

I send a patch for the -next to start to fix the issue but I think we need
other fixup

Best Regards,
J.
> 
> I will appreciate any help;
> Rostislav Lisovy
> 
> 
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