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

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Thu Oct 19 09:01:47 UTC 2017


On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 09:43:20AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> 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.

This is something that Fedora, Suse and I'm pretty sure Debian can add
to their defconfig. These are just default configuration, not
one-size-fits-all configuration.

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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