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From: Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:33:57 -0500
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] sunxi: Fix boot of Cubietruk and al.
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El jue, 19-10-2017 a las 16:58 +0200, Maxime Ripard escribi=C3=B3:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 03:42:11PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > On 19/10/17 14:24, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 02:03:55PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >=20
> > > > On 19/10/17 09:26, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >=20
> > > > > Most featureful boards, such as the Cubietruck, have been
> > > > > broken since
> > > > > the release 2017.09.
> > > > >=20
> > > > > 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.
> > > > >=20
> > > > > 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.
> > > >=20
> > > > Is that really such a problem? How many people rely on having
> > > > their
> > > > custom environment preserved over an update? (That's an honest
> > > > question)
> > >=20
> > > All of them, I guess. In your U-boot upgrade script, do you do a
> > > 'env
> > > default -a; saveenv' all the time ?
> > >=20
> > > I know I don't.
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> 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
dhcp
pxe get
pxe boot
and pick the right option. nothing needed on the client side.

Dennis