On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 12:18:35PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Tom Rini <tr...@konsulko.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 09:48:08PM +0800, Bin Meng wrote: > >> Hi Dirk, > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Dirk Eibach <dirk.eib...@gdsys.cc> wrote: > >> > Hi Bin, > >> > > >> >> ... > >> >> The simple fix is to change change iocon to a more larger size since > >> >> it has a 64MB flash. Dirk, can you please comment? > >> > > >> > The problem is the flash partition layout, coming from a time where > >> > u-boot was an order of magnitude smaller :) > >> > > >> > >> I guess so. > >> > >> > Updating partition layout in tens of thousands of devices in the field > >> > is not an option for us. > >> > > >> > >> I suspect 256KB won't fit anyway, if trying to make use of these new > >> U-Boot features,eg: using driver model adds some more footprints too. > >> So in your deployment, you just upgrade those devices in the field to > >> latest U-Boot (new version) but not changing partition layout, for fix > >> only? > > > > I'm not convinced that we shouldn't be able to be useful in 256KB. > > Sure, a kitchen-sink EVM + config will be large but iocon is a defined > > production type config. If we can't make this work, I'm going to be > > worried. I've already gotten some aside pokes about making U-Boot > > shrink down when you turn stuff off. > > > > I want to cycle back to saying that we need to look at ways to > > work-around the gcc issue that's keeping a bunch of unused strings in > > the resulting binary. > > So, what's our best way to do with this PR? I am worried that since > this iocon board is already at an edge, any ramdom bug fix (to common > codes) in the future could be the next victim.
For this PR, I think we need to push the fdt patch in question out and for the next release look at splitting up common/fdt_support.c into logical chunks. -- Tom
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