[U-Boot] [PATCH] sunxi: Pine64: temporarily remove extra Pine64 non-plus DT

[Maxime Ripard]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 12:52:22AM +0000, Andre Przywara wrote:
> With the merge of the new u-boot.itb size check now the build for
> pine64_plus_defconfig breaks, as this file gets too large:
> =============
> u-boot.itb exceeds file size limit:
>   limit:  516096 bytes
>   actual: 521852 bytes
>   excess: 5756 bytes
> make: *** [u-boot.itb] Error 1
> =============
> One easily fixable reason is that we actually have two .dtbs in our FIT
> image, one for the regular Pine64+ board, and one for the non-plus version.
> The only difference U-Boot cares about is the 100Mbit Ethernet PHY used
> on the non-plus version, however Ethernet isn't enabled in the non-plus
> DT anyway.
> So we could avoid the non-plus special handling, and remove that extra
> .dtb from the FIT image, which saves a few KBs and brings us back below the
> limit. The Pine64 would boot with a Pine64+ .dtb, and would fail to
> enable Ethernet. Given that it didn't work in the first place, this is not
> a regression.
> Once we switch to a non-MMC environment, we can bring this back, then
> with a proper .dtb and hopefully working Ethernet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

That works for me, but we have other ways ot address this as well, see
the other thread :)

Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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