[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 09/11] sunxi: disable direct MMC environment

Andre Przywara andre.przywara at arm.com
Wed Apr 4 08:59:01 UTC 2018


Hi Maxime,

On 04/04/18 07:42, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 01:31:21AM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
>> Since the dawn of time for the Allwinner support in mainline U-Boot
>> we store the environment to the SD card and write directly at
>> 544KB from the beginning of the device. This leads to problems when
>> the U-Boot proper image grows beyond 504KB and eventually overlaps.
>> With one release of having the environment preferably in a FAT
>> partition, let's now turn off the MMC variant fallback, so we get back
>> all the space we need to implement features.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at bootlin.com>

Thanks a lot, also for the good collaboration during the "dark times" of
the U-Boot proper size limitation ;-)

Cheers,
Andre.


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