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

[Stefan Roese]

On 24.04.19 16:13, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 03:49:35PM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
>> On 24.04.19 15:21, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 09:00:48AM -0400, Tom Rini wrote:
>>>> 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!
>>>
>>> Anyone?  Thanks!
>>
>> I can add myself as maintainer and add it back to the travis builds.
>> Even though I can only compile test because I don't have access to
>> this board.
> 
> OK.  Make sure to include updating the travis rules when you update the
> MAINTAINERS file, thanks!

Yep. I'll send a patch for this once I've pushed this patch here to
mainline, which should happen shortly.

Thanks,
Stefan