[U-Boot] [PATCH v11 9/9] ARM: socfpga: Increase Malloc pool size to support FAT filesystem in SPL

Dinh Nguyen dinguyen at kernel.org
Thu Mar 7 15:33:01 UTC 2019



On 3/7/19 2:24 AM, Chee, Tien Fong wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 22:52 -0600, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
>>
>> On 3/5/19 10:23 AM, tien.fong.chee at intel.com wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Tien Fong Chee <tien.fong.chee at intel.com>
>>>
>>> After some series of patches to maximise reusable of memory pool,
>>> here come
>>> to result of reasonable size required for whole SDMMC boot working
>>> on A10
>>> SoCDK. Size required come from default max cluster(0x10000) +
>>> others(0x2000) + additional memory for headroom(0x3000).
>> This commit log is really confusing. What "series of patches"?
> There are few patches for optimization the vfat needed to result this
> calculation. For previous records, you can check from here [v7]: https:
> //www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg314511.html.

Ok. Please state these facts in the commit log. I have no idea what
"series of patches" you were referring to.

> 
>>  I think
>> you're just needing a bigger malloc pool. Can you just say that and
>> explain why you need it?
> I put this details because Marek asked this before, so i think others
> also intrested to know.
> 

That's fine! Just that the details wasn't very clear.

Dinh


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