[U-Boot] powerpc/mpc85xx: Increase image size

York Sun yorksun at freescale.com
Wed Oct 16 22:38:53 CEST 2013


On 10/16/2013 01:33 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 13:32 -0700, York Sun wrote:
>> On 10/16/2013 01:29 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 13:22 -0700, York Sun wrote:
>>>> On 10/16/2013 12:37 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 10:41 -0700, York Sun wrote:
>>>>>> Are SPL and TPL boot methods immune from the size issue here?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sort of.  We still need to fit inside existing partition tables.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> PBL boot will be broken if the image size is bigger than 512KB, right?
>>>
>>> It has to be even smaller than that, to make room for early data.
>>>
>>
>> So if we go with 768KB, do we have to convert all PBL boot to SPL boot?
> 
> Only the targets that need the extra space.
> 

We have T4, B4 and corenet_ds using PBL boot. They most likely will
exceed the 512KB soon, if not yet. It maybe easier to change all of them
togther, than one by one.

York





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