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

[Andrew F. Davis]

On 02/08/2017 02:40 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 12:42:33PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> On 02/08/2017 07:07 AM, 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.
>>>
>>
>> I am also, I'm working to save about 30 bytes right now to include
>> another boot mode into HS SPL, +7Kb will simply not work. It looks like
>> you also get some of your saving from enabling simple_malloc, this is
>> already enabled for AM335x-HS, so the size increase will likely be
>> greater on the platform that needs it the most :(
> 
> I know I said it only the other day but switching from gcc-4.x/5.x to
> 6.x saves a bunch of space, even on am335x hs.  I guess my request is
> that you pick up a gcc-6.x (Debian/unstable, Fedora 25 or I assume
> Linaro) compiler for ARM and see converting am335x HS to SPL_DT is
> anywhere close to fitting in the constraint.
> 

I'm already using Linaro's gcc-6.x, I don't believe SPL fits anymore
using the old compilers as it stands today.

Andrew