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From: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [PATCH] imx8mp_evk: Make SPL binary size smaller
Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 14:02:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33fb5197-d51e-6a4a-ced0-c77ceb95031a@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200507120029.3172-1-festevam@gmail.com>

On 5/7/20 2:00 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> Commit f24dea4e1b52 ("ARM: imx8m: Fix reset in SPL on NXP iMX8MP EVK") caused
> the u-boot-spl.bin binary size to grow by around 2000 bytes, which makes the
> board to fail to boot.
> 
> Reduce the SPL size by the same amount so that it can boot again.
> 
> Further SPL reduction work is needed, such as removing driver model support
> in SPL.
> 
> Just to provide a comparison: NXP U-Boot tree has a SPL binary size of 64kB
> versus 96KB in U-Boot mainline.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
> ---
> Hi,
> 
> I plan to reduce SPL size even further by removing SPL_DM=y, but this
> needs more time to accomplish, so I prefer to give a small SPL reduction
> at this time, just to allow the board to boot again.
> 
> Also, will try to come up with a SPL size detection in build time, as it
> is hard to debug such issues in run-time.
> 
>  configs/imx8mp_evk_defconfig | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

So the obvious question is, if you call hang(), does the SPL still reset
or does it fail?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-07 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-07 12:00 [PATCH] imx8mp_evk: Make SPL binary size smaller Fabio Estevam
2020-05-07 12:02 ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2020-05-07 12:08 ` Harald Seiler
2020-05-07 12:37   ` Fabio Estevam
2020-05-08  1:07 ` Fabio Estevam
2020-05-08  1:40   ` Marek Vasut
2020-05-08  2:56     ` Fabio Estevam
2020-05-08  2:59       ` Marek Vasut
2020-05-08  3:34         ` Fabio Estevam
2020-05-08  4:53       ` Fabio Estevam
2020-05-08 11:49         ` Fabio Estevam
2020-05-08 11:57           ` Marek Vasut
2020-05-08 12:04             ` Fabio Estevam
2020-05-08 12:04               ` Marek Vasut
2020-05-08 15:54                 ` Fabio Estevam
2020-05-10 14:32   ` Peng Fan
2020-05-10 14:34     ` Marek Vasut

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