[En-Nut-Discussion] bootloader patches submitted for approval

[Harald Kipp]

Dave,

Probably avr-gcc 3.4.3 provides better code optimization.

 From experience with the LAN91C111 bootloader I'm sure,
that there is some potential to optimize the code.
It's just 40 bytes overflow. Because of PHY initialization,
the LAN91C111 bootloader needs more functions, but fits
in 4094 bytes (using gcc 3.3.1).

I'd not like to force everyone to upgrade the compiler.
Specially in existing commercial projects this might be
a big problem.

For now we can leave it as it. If someone wants to
build this very special part of the distribution, he
may upgrade the compiler.

Harald

At 10:54 26.05.2005 -0400, you wrote:

>Hi Harald,
>
>Thanks for looking into this. I'm not sure why yours would produce a
>larger binary than mine. I'm using avr-gcc 3.4.3 and avr-ld 2.15 from
>the debian unstable branch. I obvously would not have submitted the
>patch if it didn't work for me. Where do we go from here to fix this
>problem? I'm more than happy to help out in whatever way I can, just let
>me know what I can do to help get this issue resolved. Attached is my
>hex file, so you, or anyone else can test it out, or play around with
>it.