[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/2] sunxi: Fix boot of Cubietruk and al.

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 02:16:12PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Most featureful boards, such as the Cubietruck, have been broken since
> the release 2017.09 (the two variants of the Olinuxino-Lime2 and the
> cubietruck at least, possibly more since then).
> 
> This is due to a size increase of the binary that will trip us across
> the size we've been using in our default configuration since forever,
> and widely distributed through the u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin file.
> 
> We would have several 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.
> 
> The second one would be to move the environment to a filesystem file,
> which would also break all the existing users. This can be envisionned
> as a long term fix though.
> 
> 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. However, this will always result in pointless and
> endless discussions, so let's move away from that.
> 
> The final one that has been implemented would be to just build U-Boot
> using thumb2 to push back the issue until hopefully I'm no longer
> maintainer or the switch to the env filesystem would have been done.
> 
> I've also added a patch to make sure that the compilation breaks and
> that we can notice.

Applied both, thanks!
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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