[PATCH] imx: dts: tbs2910: add u-boot dtsi to shrink image size

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Fri Dec 6 23:03:17 CET 2019 

On 12/6/19 8:26 PM, Soeren Moch wrote:
>
>
> On 06.12.19 19:43, Tom Rini wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
>>
>>> Use U-Boot specific board dtsi to remove some not used nodes and
>>> properties. With this change applied considerable size reduction
>>> has been observed:
>>>
>>>    $ ./tools/buildman/buildman -b tbs2910 -f tbs2910 || \
>>>      ./tools/buildman/buildman -b tbs2910 -sS tbs2910
>>>    ...
>>>    Summary of 2 commits for 1 boards (1 thread, 12 jobs per thread)
>>>    01: Merge branch '2019-12-05-master-imports'
>>>           arm:  w+   tbs2910
>>>    02: imx: dts: tbs2910: add u-boot dtsi to shrink image size
>>>           arm: (for 1/1 boards) all -24448.0 text -24448.0
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust at denx.de>
>>> ---
>>> This patch was only build-tested, maybe this removes to much
>>> and needs some tweaking. I'd appreciate if someone could test
>>> it on actual hardware and finish the work, so we hopefully
>>> can solve frequent CI build breakage caused by this target.
>>>
>>>   arch/arm/dts/imx6q-tbs2910-u-boot.dtsi | 219 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   1 file changed, 219 insertions(+)
>>>   create mode 100644 arch/arm/dts/imx6q-tbs2910-u-boot.dtsi
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/dts/imx6q-tbs2910-u-boot.dtsi b/arch/arm/dts/imx6q-tbs2910-u-boot.dtsi
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000000..3e9307f17f
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/arch/arm/dts/imx6q-tbs2910-u-boot.dtsi
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,219 @@
>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
>>> +/*
>>> + * U-Boot specific modifications for original tbs2910 DTS.
>>> + * This drops not used nodes/properties to reduce the image size.
>>> + */
>>> +
>>> +/ {
>>> +	/delete-property/ model;
>>> +	/delete-property/ compatible;
>>> +
>>> +	aliases {
>>> +		/delete-property/ can0;
>>> +		/delete-property/ can1;
>>> +		/delete-property/ gpio3;
>>> +		/delete-property/ gpio4;
>>> +		/delete-property/ gpio5;
>>> +		/delete-property/ ipu1;
>>> +		/delete-property/ mmc3;
>>> +		/delete-property/ spi0;
>>> +		/delete-property/ spi1;
>>> +		/delete-property/ spi2;
>>> +		/delete-property/ spi3;
>>> +		/delete-property/ spi4;
>>> +		/delete-property/ serial2;
>>> +		/delete-property/ serial3;
>>> +		/delete-property/ serial4;
>>> +		/delete-property/ video1;
>>> +	};
>>> +
>>> +	/delete-node/ cpus;
>>> +	/delete-node/ capture-subsystem;
>>> +	/delete-node/ chosen;
>>> +	/delete-node/ display-subsystem;
>>> +	/delete-node/ fan;
>>> +	/delete-node/ ir_recv;
>>> +	/delete-node/ leds;
>>> +	/delete-node/ memory;
>>> +	/delete-node/ sound-sgtl5000;
>>> +	/delete-node/ sound-spdif;
>>> +
>>> +	soc {
>>> +		u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
>>> +		/delete-property/ ranges;
>>> +		/delete-node/ timer at a00600;
>>> +
>>> +		aips-bus at 2000000 {
>>> +			/delete-property/ ranges;
>>> +			/delete-node/ aipstz at 207c000;
>>> +			spba-bus at 2000000 {
>>> +				/delete-property/ ranges;
>>> +				/delete-node/ spba at 203c000;
>>> +			};
>>> +		};
>>> +
>>> +		aips-bus at 2100000 {
>>> +			/delete-property/ ranges;
>>> +			/delete-node/ aipstz at 217c000;
>>> +			/delete-node/ mlb at 218c000;
>>> +			/delete-node/ romcp at 21ac000;
>>> +			/delete-node/ tzasc at 21d0000;
>>> +			/delete-node/ tzasc at 21d4000;
>>> +			/delete-node/ vdoa at 21e4000;
>>> +		};
>>> +	};
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +&anatop {
>>> +	/delete-node/ regulator-1p1;
>>> +	/delete-node/ regulator-2p5;
>>> +	/delete-node/ regulator-3p0;
>>> +	/delete-node/ regulator-vddcore;
>>> +	/delete-node/ regulator-vddpu;
>>> +	/delete-node/ regulator-vddsoc;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +&sata {
>>> +	/delete-property/ clocks;
>>> +	/delete-property/ clock-names;
>>> +	/delete-property/ interrupts;
>>> +	/delete-property/ interrupts;
>>> +	/delete-property/ fsl,transmit-level-mV;
>>> +	/delete-property/ fsl,transmit-boost-mdB;
>>> +	/delete-property/ fsl,transmit-atten-16ths;
>>> +	/delete-property/ fsl,receive-eq-mdB;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +&pcie {
>>> +	/delete-property/ reg-names;
>>> +	/delete-property/ device_type;
>>> +	/delete-property/ bus-range;
>>> +	/delete-property/ ranges;
>>> +	/delete-property/ num-lanes;
>>> +	/delete-property/ interrupts;
>>> +	/delete-property/ interrupt-names;
>>> +	/delete-property/ #interrupt-cells;
>>> +	/delete-property/ interrupt-map-mask;
>>> +	/delete-property/ interrupt-map;
>>> +	/delete-property/ clocks;
>>> +	/delete-property/ clock-names;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +&uart1 {
>>> +	/delete-property/ interrupts;
>>> +	/delete-property/ clocks;
>>> +	/delete-property/ clock-names;
>>> +	/delete-property/ dmas;
>>> +	/delete-property/ dma-names;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +&uart2 {
>>> +	/delete-property/ interrupts;
>>> +	/delete-property/ clocks;
>>> +	/delete-property/ clock-names;
>>> +	/delete-property/ dmas;
>>> +	/delete-property/ dma-names;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +/delete-node/ &L2;
>>> +/delete-node/ &asrc;
>>> +/delete-node/ &audmux;
>>> +/delete-node/ &can1;
>>> +/delete-node/ &can2;
>>> +/delete-node/ &crypto;
>>> +/delete-node/ &dcic1;
>>> +/delete-node/ &dcic2;
>>> +/delete-node/ &dma_apbh;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ecspi1;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ecspi2;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ecspi3;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ecspi4;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ecspi5;
>>> +/delete-node/ &epit1;
>>> +/delete-node/ &epit2;
>>> +/delete-node/ &esai;
>>> +/delete-node/ &gpt;
>>> +/delete-node/ &gpio4;
>>> +/delete-node/ &gpio5;
>>> +/delete-node/ &gpio6;
>>> +/delete-node/ &gpu_3d;
>>> +/delete-node/ &gpu_2d;
>>> +/delete-node/ &gpu_vg;
>>> +/delete-node/ &gpmi;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ipu2;
>>> +/delete-node/ &kpp;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ldb;
>>> +/delete-node/ &mipi_csi;
>>> +/delete-node/ &mmdc0;
>>> +/delete-node/ &mmdc1;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ocotp;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ocram;
>>> +/delete-node/ &pinctrl_gpio_fan;
>>> +/delete-node/ &pinctrl_ir;
>>> +/delete-node/ &pinctrl_gpio_leds;
>>> +/delete-node/ &pinctrl_sgtl5000;
>>> +/delete-node/ &pinctrl_spdif;
>>> +/delete-node/ &pmu;
>>> +/delete-node/ &pwm1;
>>> +/delete-node/ &pwm2;
>>> +/delete-node/ &pwm3;
>>> +/delete-node/ &pwm4;
>>> +/delete-node/ &sdma;
>>> +/delete-node/ &reg_2p5v;
>>> +/delete-node/ &sgtl5000;
>>> +/delete-node/ &snvs;
>>> +/delete-node/ &spdif;
>>> +/delete-node/ &src;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ssi1;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ssi2;
>>> +/delete-node/ &ssi3;
>>> +/delete-node/ &tempmon;
>>> +/delete-node/ &uart3;
>>> +/delete-node/ &uart4;
>>> +/delete-node/ &uart5;
>>> +/delete-node/ &usbh2;
>>> +/delete-node/ &usbh3;
>>> +/delete-node/ &usdhc1;
>>> +/delete-node/ &vpu;
>>> +/delete-node/ &wdog2;
>>> +/delete-node/ &weim;
>>> +
>>> +&gpr {
>>> +	/delete-node/ ipu1_csi0_mux;
>>> +	/delete-node/ ipu2_csi1_mux;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +&gpc {
>>> +	/delete-node/ pgc;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +&hdmi {
>>> +	/delete-node/ port at 2;
>>> +	/delete-node/ port at 3;
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +&mipi_dsi {
>>> +	ports {
>>> +		/delete-node/ port at 2;
>>> +		/delete-node/ port at 3;
>>> +	};
>>> +};
>>> +
>>> +&ipu1 {
>>> +	u-boot,dm-pre-reloc;
>>> +	/delete-property/ interrupts;
>>> +	/delete-property/ clocks;
>>> +	/delete-property/ clock-names;
>>> +	/delete-property/ resets;
>>> +	/delete-node/ port at 0;
>>> +	/delete-node/ port at 1;
>>> +
>>> +	port at 2 {
>>> +		/delete-node/ endpoint at 3;
>>> +		/delete-node/ endpoint at 4;
>>> +	};
>>> +	port at 3 {
>>> +		/delete-node/ endpoint at 3;
>>> +		/delete-node/ endpoint at 4;
>>> +	};
>>> +};
> Oh, most of the deleted properties and nodes are not defined in the
> board dts, but in the soc dtsi instead.
> So for me it would make more sense to also split the "delete dtsi" in a
> board and soc part, if this really is the way to go.
>> This gets an important conversation started.  Perhaps we should expand
>> OF_SPL_REMOVE_PROPS for full U-Boot, with some gating symbol for the
>> platforms that do want to pass through the full DT to the OS?
>>
> I also already looked at OF_SPL_REMOVE_PROPS, would make much sense to
> have this for full u-boot. To duplicate each device tree with an almost
> identical "delete dtsi" looks like a huge maintenance burden for me.
>
> Maybe the build system can at least automatically remove disabled nodes
> and nodes without compatible in enabled DM drivers. This would not help
> for unneeded properties in enabled nodes, but probably automatically
> give the biggest part of size reduction.
>

In an ideal world the firmware and not the operating system would supply
the device tree for booting the operating system. Currently for many
boards the U-Boot supplied device tree is enough to boot Linux. Deleting
nodes not used by U-Boot would not be helpful in this context.

Best regards

Heinrich

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