[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: ti: boot: Increase system partition size

Sam Protsenko semen.protsenko at linaro.org
Fri Dec 14 13:15:46 UTC 2018


Hi Praneeth,

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 1:37 AM Bajjuri, Praneeth <praneeth at ti.com> wrote:
>
> Sam,
>
> On 12/11/2018 10:26 AM, Bajjuri, Praneeth wrote:
> >
> > On 12/11/2018 10:20 AM, Sam Protsenko wrote:
> >> Android code base is growing, so since Android "Pie" the size of
> >> system.img grew up to be about 740 MiB. Let's increase system.img to
> >> 1 GiB to accommodate for those changes and leave some margin for future
> >> changes. We don't want to make it more than 1 GiB, because we should
> >> keep userdata partition big enough (for user files, like media etc.),
> >> and eMMC size on BeagleBoard-X15 is only 3.5 GiB.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko at linaro.org>
> > Acked-by: Praneeth Bajjuri <praneeth at ti.com>
> >> ---
> >>   include/environment/ti/boot.h | 2 +-
> >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/include/environment/ti/boot.h
> >> b/include/environment/ti/boot.h
> >> index 5891009a5a..86ff6d3ea7 100644
> >> --- a/include/environment/ti/boot.h
> >> +++ b/include/environment/ti/boot.h
> >> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
> >>       "name=crypto,size=16K,uuid=${uuid_gpt_crypto};" \
> >>       "name=recovery,size=40M,uuid=${uuid_gpt_recovery};" \
> >>       "name=boot,size=10M,uuid=${uuid_gpt_boot};" \
> >> -    "name=system,size=768M,uuid=${uuid_gpt_system};" \
> >> +    "name=system,size=1024M,uuid=${uuid_gpt_system};" \
>
> while at it,
>
> Can you remove the legacy partitions which are not applicable anymore
> for X15.
>
> remove : reserved, efs,crypto,cache,ipu1,ipu2. This will give more
> storage for userdata
>

Actually this file is also used for DRA7 and OMAP5 boards. Do you know
if we need ipu* partitions on DRA7?

"reserved" is actually used to mark U-Boot environment, so I guess I
will rename it rather them remove.

As for the other partitions, like cache, I think you're right. We
shouldn't try and support old Androids in new U-Boot, we have older
release tags for this. But I'd prefer to send that change in a
separate patch, due to commit message and atomicity.

Thanks.

> we can still use misc for reboot reason storage for the purpose of
> fastboot reboot to (bootloader or recovery)
>
> >> "name=vendor,size=256M,uuid=${uuid_gpt_vendor};" \
> >>       "name=cache,size=256M,uuid=${uuid_gpt_cache};" \
> >>       "name=ipu1,size=1M,uuid=${uuid_gpt_ipu1};" \


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