Hi Marek, > On 3/28/24 10:20 AM, Lukasz Majewski wrote: > > Dear Community, > > > > I'd like to share with you some thoughts about growth of u-boot's > > binary size for SPL and u-boot proper. > > > > Board: XEA > > SoC : imx287 (still in active production) > > Problem: SPL size constrained to ~55 KiB (This cannot be exceeded). > > Board design constraints u-boot proper size to less than > > ~448 KiB > > > > > > When XEA was added (2019.07): > > - u-boot.sb (SPL): 37 KiB > > - u-boot.img : 401 KiB > > > > Now (2024.04): > > - u-boot.sb (SPL): 40 KiB > > Do you know which symbol(s) grew in here ?
I will need to check it. > > > - u-boot.img : 427 KiB > > > > (With a _lot_ of effort put to reduce the size) > > > > Hence, the question - would it be possible to take more concern > > about the binary size growth? > > > > Maybe CI could catch patches, which enable by default some features > > and the size is unintentionally increased? > > Try and set CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT and CONFIG_SPL_SIZE_LIMIT for > this board, that would trip build error if the size grows too large. I think that setting CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT and CONFIG_SPL_SIZE_LIMIT would help for rising the "red flag" of the size limit. However, I would like to signal that there is a problem with u-boot size increase. Best regards, Lukasz Majewski -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Erika Unter HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-59 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: lu...@denx.de
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