[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 00/20] mx6sabre: Add DM and SPL FIT support

Abel Vesa abel.vesa at nxp.com
Mon Feb 4 15:15:41 UTC 2019


On 19-02-04 08:19:23, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 09:03:43AM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 7:55 AM Abel Vesa <abel.vesa at nxp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > If the SPL size (without the dtb appended) is larger then yes, the build fails.
> > > Trouble is if the SPL (without the dtb appended) is, lets say, 63kB and
> > > then the dtb is larger than 1kB. Then there is no mechanism in place to check that
> > > and it will just fail to boot without giving any clues why. But this is a totally
> > > unrelated problem from this patchset's point of view and I think it impacts all
> > > the platforms that support SPL with DM.
> > 
> > Yes, it is unrelated to this series and should be treated separately.
> 
> I also agree.  But, don't we have a mechanism for that?  It sounds like
> some additional targets need to call $(BOARD_SIZE_CHECK) at the end.  Or
> am I missing something?
> 

Hmm, I believe that is true. I haven't looked deeper into it but it seems
that's the thing the SPL is missing.

> -- 
> Tom



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