[U-Boot] [PATCH 10/13] sunxi: Make the fastboot buffer larger

Ian Campbell
2015-09-07T09:07:37Z

On Sun, 2015-09-06 at 13:22 +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 12:59:24PM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 09:57:16AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> > > Of course, this will all depend on the ratio between the empty space
> > > and the files themselves, and what files you actually have there, but
> > > while 32MB is definitely useless, 256MB is already a decent size.
> >
> > So there's not any automatic chunking and writing of the image? Maybe
> > I'm confusing this with DFU and/or my wishlist/imagination...
>
> Apparently, Rob was saying there was some, but I'm not sure we support
> that yet, I'd need to look into it.

It seems this is pretty critical, given that storage (both capacity and
actual required space within the fs) are growing and 256MB is only barely
big enough for the 4GB image you have today (210MB after the various
compression strategies are applied).

Ian.