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

[Dennis Gilmore]

El jue, 19-10-2017 a las 15:24 +0200, Maxime Ripard escribió:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 02:03:55PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 19/10/17 09:26, 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.
> > 
> > Is that really such a problem? How many people rely on having their
> > custom environment preserved over an update? (That's an honest
> > question)
> 
> All of them, I guess. In your U-boot upgrade script, do you do a 'env
> default -a; saveenv' all the time ?
> 
> I know I don't.
I personally do not do anything to the environment ever if I can help
it. I rely on u-boot having the smarts to just do the right thing and
boot my system for me. if the environment moves, as I use the defaults
it will just continue to work.

Dennis