[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/3] sunxi: Fix boot of Cubietruk and al.

[Alexander Graf]

On 10/19/2017 10:26 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Most featureful boards, such as the Cubietruck, have been broken since
> the release 2017.09.
>
> This is due to a size increase of the binary that will trip us across
> the size we've been using in the u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin file.
>
> We would have two ways to work around it. The first one would be to
> just increase the offset of the environment. However, since it would
> break all the environments of our users and possibly the custom
> partition scheme that they would have created, it doesn't really seem
> like a smart move.
>
> Another one would be to start trimming down a bit our enabled options
> in order to reduce the size and to gain some extra space for users
> customisations. I've taken care some of the low hanging fruits, and we
> should probably take another go at it in the future (and add a size
> check in the image build somehow?)

How about we add the size check first before crippling the feature set 
of sunxi boards? Then maybe rather disable lesser used features than 
efi_loader?


Alex