[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/3] ARM: sunxi: Disable USB host options by default

[Andre Przywara]

Hi,

On 19/10/17 09:48, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 10/19/2017 10:26 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote:
>> The USB keyboard and USB storage support are non-essential from an
>> architecture-wide sense.
>>
>> Remove the selection so that we can trim down the size of our binaries a
>> bit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
> 
> Most users out there that I'm aware of use U-Boot without serial port
> attached. Disabling USB keyboard support means they can no longer
> interact with their firmware. That's a terrible thing to do.

Also USB storage is the canonical way of installing distributions, by
using an USB flash drive with a generic (UEFI) installer on it.

And I second the concerns about removal of UEFI support and USB
keyboard. Especially UEFI is a real deal breaker for ARM64 boards.

So while I see that this series fixes a particular problem, I am a bit
wary of this solution, as this just papers over the issue and will
likely break in the future again.

Can't we somehow fix the environment problem? Possibly via the upgrade
process (save the environment, update U-Boot, re-install the
environment)? Or some other clever way? That would be more future proof,
I believe.

Cheers,
Andre.