On Wednesday 08 February 2017 06:45 PM, Tom Rini wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:37:17PM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday 08 February 2017 06:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:03:31PM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote: >>> >>>> - Enable SPL_DM on all DRA7 and AM57xx based platforms. >>>> - SPL uses a generic dts on all platforms with same defconfig. >>>> - After this series SPL size is increased by ~7KB. >>> >>> That's not a bad size growth, esp here where we can afford it. Did you >> >> Yeah, but I am worried about this size on am335x. > > Agreed, at least wrt HS platforms as well. > >> >>> experiment with going the board-data way? Also it looks like we're >> >> hmm.. IIUC, board-data is duplication of same data that is available in >> DT. Anyways all the unsed nodes in DT are removed for SPL case. So, I >> used this approach. > > My understanding was that going this way (ala rockchip) does save space. > We may also need to start saying that gcc-6 is required on these > platforms in order to take advantage of having all of the unused strings > really be discarded from the final binary.
Okay, Ill try this for am335x. I guess the current approach is fine for DRA7 and AM57? Thanks and regards, Lokesh > >>> going the same DT for U-Boot proper now, will this work long term? Or >>> do you need to switch to having U-Boot itself be loaded from a FIT image >>> and given the correct board dtb? Thanks! >> >> The DT that is being introduced in this series will be used only by SPL. >> For U-Boot proper, a FIT image will be built using OF_LIST. I don't >> think we need to switch. > > Ah, I missed that already being set, sorry. > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
