[U-Boot] BSS footprint of FAT very high - SPL issues

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 00:23:46 Aneesh V wrote:
> BSS footprint of fat.c is very high. It has three buffers each of size
> 64KB. To workaround this problem I have done something like below(The
> way x-loader works around this problem today).
> CONFIG_SYS_SPL_FAT_BUFFER_BASE is in SDRAM.Is this ok?
> 
> Also, I was wondering why we need 3 such scratch buffers in this
> implementation. I do not understand this code. But I was wondering if we
> could work with just one 64K buffer?

i'd be pretty surprised if these couldnt be cleaned up in some way.  sucking 
up 64KiB * 3 just for vfat is pretty f-in crazy.  no other FS code needs this.
-mike
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