[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: vexpress_*: Enable CMD_UBI support

Otavio Salvador otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br
Tue Nov 20 18:46:59 UTC 2018


On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 8:10 AM Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau at foss.arm.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 06:48:07PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > This allow for convenient use of QEMU machine to test loading of UBI
> > filesystem. There are a couple of changes made together of this which
> > are required:
> >
> >  1) The malloc must be at least 512 KiB to allow the use of UBI
> >     filesystem. We are going to enable it in a next patch.
...
> I don't have much to say about the enabling of the UBI for some
> platforms that I have my doubts that QEMU emulates them correctly, but I
> guess it should be harmless. What I have issues here is you saying in
> the commit message "The malloc must be *at least* 512 KiB" but here you
> make it *exactly* 512KiB, ignoring the CONFIG_ENV_SIZE. Would it not be
> better to keep the CONFIG_SYS_MALLOC_LEN to be (CONFIG_ENV_SIZE + 512 * 1024)?

Absolutely; I just sent a v2 doing that.

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