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

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Aug 22 06:19:59 CEST 2015


On 19 August 2015 at 08:33, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Applied to u-boot-x86.


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