On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:44:00PM +0000, Vikas MANOCHA wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tom Rini [mailto:tr...@konsulko.com]
> > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 5:29 AM
> > To: Vikas MANOCHA <vikas.mano...@st.com>
> > Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de>; Stefan Agner 
> > <stefan.ag...@toradex.com>; Jeremy Hunt
> > <jeremy.h...@deshawresearch.com>
> > Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] spl: make image arg or fdt blob address 
> > reconfigurable
> > 
> > On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 03:38:13PM -0700, Vikas Manocha wrote:
> > 
> > > At present fdt blob or argument address being passed to kernel is
> > > fixed at compile time using macro CONFIG_SYS_SPL_ARGS_ADDR. FDT blob
> > > from different media like nand, nor flash are copied to the address
> > > pointed by the macro.
> > > The problem is, it makes args/fdt blob compulsory to copy which is not
> > > required in cases like for NOR Flash. This patch removes this limitation.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Vikas Manocha <vikas.mano...@st.com>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/lib/spl.c        | 7 +++----
> > >  arch/microblaze/cpu/spl.c | 6 +++---
> > >  arch/powerpc/lib/spl.c    | 8 ++++----
> > >  common/spl/spl.c          | 6 ++++--
> > >  common/spl/spl_nor.c      | 8 +-------
> > >  include/spl.h             | 5 ++---
> > 
> > I assume you've tested the spl_nor case afterwards, yes?  Did this
> > result in some measurable boot time decrease?  Thanks!
> 
> Yes, I tested it's working on board. Not sure how to measure the impact on 
> boot time.

There's always good old grabserial.  But if you didn't measure
bootspeed, did this decrease the code size?  Or fix some other issue?
Thanks!

-- 
Tom

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