[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 01/19] sunxi: README.sunxi64: Add hint about non-debug of ARM Trusted Firmware

Jagan Teki jagannadh.teki at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 18:40:49 UTC 2018


On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:26 AM, Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com> wrote:
> As we are running into issues where the final U-Boot FIT image file is
> exceeding our size limit, add a hint to the README.sunxi64 file
> to point out the possibility of building non-debug versions of the ATF
> binary. These are about 12KB smaller than the standard debug build, and
> so allow successful U-Boot builds for many boards with the Allwinner H5
> SoC.
> Please note that under normal circumstances the debug build is still
> recommended, as it gives valuable clues in case something goes wrong in
> the ATF.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at bootlin.com>
> ---
>  board/sunxi/README.sunxi64 | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/board/sunxi/README.sunxi64 b/board/sunxi/README.sunxi64
> index 5a363d27b8..df1dbc818f 100644
> --- a/board/sunxi/README.sunxi64
> +++ b/board/sunxi/README.sunxi64
> @@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ the root of your U-Boot build directory (or create a symbolic link).
>  $ export BL31=/src/arm-trusted-firmware/build/sun50iw1p1/debug/bl31.bin
>    (adjust the actual path accordingly)
>
> +If you run into size issues with the resulting U-Boot image file, it might
> +help to use a release build, by using "DEBUG=0" when building bl31.bin.

I thought I've commented this in previous version patch, w/o DEBUG=0
can also build release right? like

make PLAT=sun50iw1p1 bl31


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