[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: mx6: Enable MMC FS boot support

Tom Rini
2016-04-28T00:54:11Z

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 02:02:05AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 04/28/2016 01:49 AM, Robert Nelson wrote:
[snip]
> > 1:
> >
> > Yeap, end users like to delete "MLO/u-boot.img" that was in the "fat"
> > boot partition in our production beaglebone images specifically
> > "2014-05-14" which was shipped by default on rev C. Thus
> > soft-bricking/etc boards..
>
> OK, so because hypothetical user is an idiot, we should use sub-par
> solution ? User can also be an idiot and generate U-Boot which is over 1
> MiB, in which case I will turn your argument around against you. Sorry,
> I am not buying this.

No, real users. Lots of them. From nearly every "community" oriented
board ever. Which is why the distros also go for this method, point #2.

> > http://beagleboard.org/latest-images
> >
> > Moving it under the 1MB location, has solved that problem.
>
> Until u-boot grows over 1 MiB. This only postponed the problem.
> Since there is filesystem support in the SPL, we should use that
> as a superior solution which doesn't suffer from this problem.

I thought people were supposed to be aligning their first partitions
much higher these days, 4MiB? as the general case for being safe
regardless of the actual flash in the SD card. Setting aside sandbox
which I hope grows extremely large for testing purposes, I really hope
U-Boot + SPL can always stay under 1MiB. Our job is to boot the next
stage. If we get so large in our design of implementing things that we
forget this, we have a problem.

--
Tom
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