[U-Boot] Pull request: u-boot-net

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 14:48:08 CET 2016


Hi Dirk,

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Dirk Eibach <dirk.eibach at gdsys.cc> wrote:
> Hi Bin,
>
>> ...
>> The simple fix is to change change iocon to a more larger size since
>> it has a 64MB flash. Dirk, can you please comment?
>
> The problem is the flash partition layout, coming from a time where
> u-boot was an order of magnitude smaller :)
>

I guess so.

> Updating partition layout in tens of thousands of devices in the field
> is not an option for us.
>

I suspect 256KB won't fit anyway, if trying to make use of these new
U-Boot features,eg: using driver model adds some more footprints too.
So in your deployment, you just upgrade those devices in the field to
latest U-Boot (new version) but not changing partition layout, for fix
only?

Regards,
Bin


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