[U-Boot] [PATCH] configs: Remove CONFIG_SPL_FS_EXT4 for all MX6 platforms

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri May 31 13:08:35 UTC 2019


On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 02:58:47PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 5/31/19 2:51 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 9:45 AM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> It's an accident just waiting to happen -- only a matter of time until
> >> someone writes too large u-boot-dtb.img and silently corrupts the file
> >> system right behind it ;-)
> > 
> > If u-boot-dtb.img grows it will corrupt the env region.
> > 
> > We can detect this situation in build time using CONFIG_BOARD_SIZE_LIMIT.
> 
> With filesystem, you can grow until you exhaust the boot partition capacity.

Unrestricted growth isn't a good thing :)

-- 
Tom
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