[U-Boot] [U-Boot, v3, 14/15] sunxi: Transition from the MMC to a FAT-based environment
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Sat Jan 27 19:21:42 UTC 2018
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 09:17:03PM +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> The current environment has been hardcoded to an offset that starts to be
> an issue given the current size of our main U-Boot binary.
>
> By implementing a custom environment location routine, we can always favor
> the FAT-based environment, and fallback to the MMC if we don't find
> something in the FAT partition. We also implement the same order when
> saving the environment, so that hopefully we can slowly migrate the users
> over to FAT-based environment and away from the raw MMC one.
>
> Eventually, and hopefully before we reach that limit again, we will have
> most of our users using that setup, and we'll be able to retire the raw
> environment, and gain more room for the U-Boot binary.
>
> Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski <lukma at denx.de>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>
Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!
--
Tom
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