[U-Boot] [PATCH] OpenRD: relocate environment to 640kB

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Thu Jun 27 11:41:59 CEST 2013


Hi Sascha,

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:42:53 +0200, Sascha Silbe
<t-uboot at infra-silbe.de> wrote:

> Hello Albert, hello Tom,
> 
> Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot at aribaud.net> writes:
> 
> [Move environment to account for increase in U-Boot size]
> > This patch is for 2013.10, not 2013.07, but I prefer raising the issue
> > as early as possible.
> >
> > If there is no way to make things smoother, then I think the 2013.10
> > release notes should contain a red, blinking, paragraph about this. I
> > would *hate* it if people were not warned and given a method to port
> > their current environment setting over.
> >
> > Possibly even, the 2013.07 could have a warning about the change to
> > come, so that people have a better chance yet to prepare for the
> > change.
> 
> The situation has gotten better recently and U-Boot fits into the
> previous partition size of 384KiB again. So it isn't broken on OpenRD
> anymore and the above would seem like a good approach.

How well does it fit again, and do you have any idea what caused the
increase in size, and what caused the decrease?

> Where are the U-Boot Release Notes located? Who is responsible for
> editing them?
> 
> Sascha

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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