[U-Boot] [PATCH 3/3] arm: kirkwood: openrd: Increase U-Boot size in flash to make it fit

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Apr 13 13:00:48 UTC 2019


On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 07:08:40PM +1200, Chris Packham wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019, 10:33 PM Stefan Roese, <sr at denx.de> wrote:
> 
> > We have run now multiple times into size issues with the openrd
> > board port. To finally fix this, this patch now moves the U-Boot size
> > from 0x6.0000 to 0x8.0000, giving enough space for the next time.
> >
> > This also changes the environment location and potentially the
> > MTD partitioning, but I see no better fix for now. Especially since
> > this board does not have an active maintainer.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> > Cc: Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> One alternative option I looked at was trimming down the dtb to drop the
> nodes that aren't used in u-boot. This might just get it under the 0x60000
> limit ... for a while.
> 
> I agree that this is the best approach in leiu of anyone maintiaining the
> board. Once this is applied the openrd boards can be reenabled in travis.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham at gmail.com>

Please note the board is currently orphaned and excluded from travis
builds due to the size problem.  So if someone is going to address this,
I want to see the board un-orphaned too (and travis updated to build it
again), thanks!

-- 
Tom
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