[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] rockchip: rk3188: Add Radxa Rock board

[Heiko Stuebner]

Am Dienstag, 4. April 2017, 12:29:53 CEST schrieb Tom Rini:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:24:07PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > On 26 March 2017 at 16:38, Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de> wrote:
> > > I've added Tom for comments, executive summary:
> > > - rk3188-tpl is size limited to 1020 bytes
> > > - gcc 6.3 produces a rk3188-tpl of 792 bytes
> > > - gcc 4.9 makes it 1020 bytes
> > > - buildman seems to always use gcc-4.9
> > > - rk3188 board does not compile with buildman
> > >
> > >
> > > Isn't holding on to a pretty old compiler for everything somewhat
> > > strange? ;-)
> > 
> > Well it's not that old. 4.6 would be old. We do need to be careful not
> > to drop old toolchains too aggressively, although for new platforms
> > such as this is doesn't matter. I try to test with older things to
> > avoid problems applying things to mainline (with Tom's automated
> > tests, etc.)
> 
> wrt buildman using certain toolchains, it comes down to the order in
> which it finds matches for a given arch and then it picks (and I don't
> recall which off the top of my head) the first or last match.
> 
> I do agree that gcc-4.9 isn't something we can drop just yet (as for
> example it's what'll be used in travis-ci today.  But it's getting
> pretty long in the tooth and we will have to at some point say that
> "platform X requires gcc-6.x or later" as we start running into hard
> walls that are solved in 6.x.
> 
> Finally, I have no objection to adding TPL_USE_ARCH_MEMSET as an option
> so that in cases like this it can be disabled due to space just as it is
> on SPL.

The problem wasn't ARCH_MEMSET - which already was way outsize the size
constraints, but the general memset also being somewhat big, with its
slight speed optimizations.

But thanks to Simon's recent patches [0] we got a really nice size-
reduction on the Rock's TPL (from 1020 to 488 bytes) . So with these
we're really good with all toolchains now.

Heiko


[0] https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg243443.html