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

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> 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.

So you're making at least three groups of users do more work? It could
also be argued that those that need the smaller space could disable it
if they don't need it in their configuration.