[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] sunxi: Fix boot of Cubietruk and al.

[Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:26:46AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Most featureful boards, such as the Cubietruck, have been broken since
> the release 2017.09.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Another one would be to start trimming down a bit our enabled options
> in order to reduce the size and to gain some extra space for users
> customisations. I've taken care some of the low hanging fruits, and we
> should probably take another go at it in the future (and add a size
> check in the image build somehow?)

So, where is the over-run exactly?  We have CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE to
ensure that we have SPL fitting within constraints.  For U-Boot itself
we don't have a generic check but it's usually done with a custom linker
script (which could in turn just #include the regular one I think).

-- 
Tom
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