Hi Siarhei, On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 12:10:44PM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Maxime Ripard > <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Most featureful boards, such as the Cubietruck, have been broken since > > the release 2017.09. > > > > This is due to a size increase of the binary that will trip us across > > the size we've been using in the u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin file. > > > > We would have two ways to work around it. The first one would be to > > just increase the offset of the environment. However, since it would > > break all the environments of our users and possibly the custom > > partition scheme that they would have created, it doesn't really seem > > like a smart move. > > > > Another one would be to start trimming down a bit our enabled options > > in order to reduce the size and to gain some extra space for users > > customisations. I've taken care some of the low hanging fruits, and we > > should probably take another go at it in the future (and add a size > > check in the image build somehow?) > > > > Maxime > > > > Maxime Ripard (3): > > ARM: sunxi: Disable USB host options by default > > ARM: sunxi: Disable FAT write by default > > efi_loader: Do not enable it by default for sunxi > > > > arch/arm/Kconfig | 4 ---- > > lib/efi_loader/Kconfig | 2 +- > > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) > > We can first enable Thumb2 build by default for 32-bit sunxi boards > and this should fix Cubietruck problems. > > $ cat .config | grep THUMB > CONFIG_HAS_THUMB2=y > # CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD is not set > CONFIG_SPL_SYS_THUMB_BUILD=y > > As a test, enabling CONFIG_SYS_THUMB_BUILD=y in Cubietruck_defconfig > reduces the size of the resulting U-Boot binary. > > == Before: == > > $ arm-linux-gnueabihf-size u-boot > text data bss dec hex filename > 489398 26492 249240 765130 bacca u-boot.orig > > == After: == > > $ arm-linux-gnueabihf-size u-boot > text data bss dec hex filename > 366314 26492 249232 642038 9cbf6 u-boot
I just gave it a try, and indeed it solves the issue for all the boards. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll send the patches. Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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