[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/6] ARM: DRA7: AM57xx: Enable SPL_DM

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Feb 8 13:30:56 UTC 2017


On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:58:10PM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 08 February 2017 06:45 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:37:17PM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wednesday 08 February 2017 06:26 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:03:31PM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> - Enable SPL_DM on all DRA7 and AM57xx based platforms.
> >>>> - SPL uses a generic dts on all platforms with same defconfig.
> >>>> - After this series SPL size is increased by ~7KB.
> >>>
> >>> That's not a bad size growth, esp here where we can afford it.  Did you
> >>
> >> Yeah, but I am worried about this size on am335x.
> > 
> > Agreed, at least wrt HS platforms as well.
> > 
> >>
> >>> experiment with going the board-data way?  Also it looks like we're
> >>
> >> hmm.. IIUC, board-data is duplication of same data that is available in
> >> DT. Anyways all the unsed nodes in DT are removed for SPL case. So, I
> >> used this approach.
> > 
> > My understanding was that going this way (ala rockchip) does save space.
> > We may also need to start saying that gcc-6 is required on these
> > platforms in order to take advantage of having all of the unused strings
> > really be discarded from the final binary.
> 
> Okay, Ill try this for am335x. I guess the current approach is fine for
> DRA7 and AM57?

Yes, this is fine for DRA7/AM57.

-- 
Tom
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