[U-Boot] [PATCH 4/4] arm: pxa: update LP-8x4x to boot DTS kernel

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Sat Dec 14 18:05:49 CET 2013


On Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 04:41:30 PM, Sergei Ianovich wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 13:32 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Saturday, December 14, 2013 at 06:42:00 AM, Sergei Ianovich wrote:
> > > The device has only 256 kiB for U-Boot binary.
> > > 
> > > Binary size exceeds 256 kiB after activating CONFIG_OF_LIBFDT, so
> > > we disable USB support which was not working anyway.
> > > 
> > > Disabled USD frees more space than libfdt requires, so activate
> > > long command line help.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Ianovich <ynvich at gmail.com>
> > 
> > Is this device not running from DRAM, which has about infinite (in the
> > context of U-Boot) size ?
> 
> Factory flash partition layout is just 256 kiB for the U-Boot. I am not
> associated with the producer, so I cannot fix this.

I see, understood. I won't bug you here, but you _might_ want to investigate if 
the U-Boot can't be for example compiled using THUMB instruction set and thus 
shrink it in size. But that'd be a long shot :)

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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