[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 7/7] x86: ifdtool: Drop microcode from the device tree when collating

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 16:33:29 CEST 2015


On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> When ifdtool collates the microcode into one place it effectively creates
> a copy of the 'data' properties in the device tree microcode nodes. This
> is wasteful since we now have two copies of the microcode in the ROM.
>
> To avoid this, remove the microcode data from the device tree and shrink it
> down. This means that there is only one copy and the overall ROM space used
> by the microcode does not increase.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
>

Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
Tested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>

[snip]

Regards,
Bin


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