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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 02:39:20PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > Not understanding, why would a user ever need it? The platform knows if
> > its has funny boot image size limits, no?
> 
> The boot loader does not come with the kernel, so the platform cannot
> know for sure.

Why would anybody use a bootloader that imposes weird restrictions on
their platform? That is, isn't that simply a broken bootloader?