[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] efi_loader: Do not enable it by default for sunxi

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 08:43:20 UTC 2017


On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> The EFI loader support takes around 31kB on an ARMv7 board, which makes us
> trip across the size limit we've had on the U-Boot binary.
>
> Since it's not an essential feature, disable it by default for ARCH_SUNXI
> so that we get back some extra room for user customisations.

Does this disable it on aarch64 boards by default such as the Pine64?
If so NAK as Fedora, SUSE and I'm pretty sure Debian all use EFI to
boot aarch64 devices and this would regress this for all those
distros.

Peter

> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  lib/efi_loader/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig b/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig
> index d2b6327119b4..a80a914b2fe8 100644
> --- a/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig
> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  config EFI_LOADER
>         bool "Support running EFI Applications in U-Boot"
>         depends on (ARM || X86) && OF_LIBFDT
> -       default y
> +       default y if !ARCH_SUNXI
>         help
>           Select this option if you want to run EFI applications (like grub2)
>           on top of U-Boot. If this option is enabled, U-Boot will expose EFI
> --
> 2.14.2
>
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