From: r.schwebel@pengutronix.de (Robert Schwebel)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: How much flash space should I reserve for device tree blobs?
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 20:19:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141216191918.GM1884@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFZh4h_74LY=w7gV=zNAC0ssRFgrh1DduPmZ2c+HenbztRRc-A@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 03:33:50PM -0500, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> Reflecting back on the famous quote of "Nobody needs more than 640K",
> how much space should I reserve in flash to 'future proof' my MTD map
> in regards to dtb's?
>
> Looking at the current flavors of dtb's built in a recent mainline
> kernel, the biggest one I see is 66K.
>
> How big do you all see these getting? I know, it's probably a loaded
> question. Would just like to bounce this off the list as a sanity
> check ... measure twice cut once kind of thing.
With barebox, we put the devicetree into the root filesystem and search
it via an freedesktop.org bootspec entry these days.
rsc
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-15 20:33 How much flash space should I reserve for device tree blobs? Brian Hutchinson
2014-12-16 12:22 ` Jason Cooper
2014-12-16 12:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-12-16 19:19 ` Robert Schwebel [this message]
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