El lun, 23-10-2017 a las 09:35 +0200, Maxime Ripard escribió: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 04:33:57PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > El jue, 19-10-2017 a las 16:58 +0200, Maxime Ripard escribió: > > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 03:42:11PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On 19/10/17 14:24, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 02:03:55PM +0100, Andre Przywara > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > On 19/10/17 09:26, Maxime Ripard 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > Is that really such a problem? How many people rely on > > > > > > having > > > > > > their > > > > > > custom environment preserved over an update? (That's an > > > > > > honest > > > > > > question) > > > > > > > > > > All of them, I guess. In your U-boot upgrade script, do you > > > > > do a > > > > > 'env > > > > > default -a; saveenv' all the time ? > > > > > > > > > > I know I don't. > > > > > > > > Well, I never use the saved environment and always expected > > > > some > > > > user or > > > > board specific environment to come from some file (boot.scr or > > > > something > > > > loaded via TFTP). But that's just my personal use, hence I was > > > > asking. > > > > > > Well, even if you want to boot to tftp, you'll need to have some > > > setup > > > to do, even just to use a different server IP, and that will be > > > in > > > the > > > environment. > > > > I personally just use pxe boot > > It's not really about what personally you use, but what any user can > use. Not saying that it is. but how I use it is really simple for the user to use without needing to have a ton of specific knowledge about how u- boot works
> > dhcp > > pxe get > > pxe boot > > and pick the right option. nothing needed on the client side. > > It has the assumption that the DHCP server is setup properly, which > might or might not be the case, especially when it comes to the > server > option being there and valid. > > Maxime Anyone doing something like this on X86 has to have the same setup. its not that hard of a ask to assume that a pxe environment is available. you can skip the dhcp part and set the serrver ip and system ip manually, its just simpler to use dhcp Dennis _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
