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

Chee, Tien Fong tien.fong.chee at intel.com
Fri Mar 8 04:36:01 UTC 2019


On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 09:33 -0600, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
> 
> 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.
Sure.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > >  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.
Okay, i will improve it.
> 
> Dinh


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