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From: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] distro_bootcmd: Add SF support
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:22:40 -0500
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+A few people that may have insight to my question

On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 01:24:31PM +0530, Jagan Teki wrote:

> Add distro boot command support for SPI flash.
>=20
> This distro boot will read the boot script at specific
> location at the flash and start sourcing the same.
>=20
> The common macro like BOOTENV_SHARED_FLASH would help
> to extend the support for nand flash in future.
>=20
> Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@amarulasolutions.com>

What distro is this for?  My concern here is that hundreds of boards
(literally) grow by a few hundred bytes to add in this bit of additional
default logic.  That's not a big problem if distributions are now going
to be using SPI flash as where they're programming in their bootscript.
But, who is doing that?  Thanks!

--=20
Tom

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