[PATCH 3/3] imx8qm_mek: Increase CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN to 64MB

Marcel Ziswiler marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com
Mon Aug 30 17:05:32 CEST 2021


On Mon, 2021-08-30 at 14:18 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 8/30/21 1:11 PM, Oleksandr Suvorov wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 10:55 PM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 8/29/21 9:39 PM, Oleksandr Suvorov wrote:
> > > > The BSP platform LmP supports the board NXP iMX8QM MEK. The
> > > > kernel size in LmP exceeds 32Mb. Increase the maximum size
> > > > of an uncompressed kernel to fix the following error:
> > > >       Uncompressing Kernel Image
> > > >       Error: inflate() returned -5
> > > >       Image too large: increase CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN
> > > >       Must RESET board to recover
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Maybe we should increase the default for arm64 instead ? 8 MiB is too small.
> > 
> > I completely agree if NXP doesn't have objections.
> > @Peng Fan Do you mind?
> 
> Increase it for all of arm64 , or all of U-Boot even. This has nothing 
> to do with NXP.

In general, I agree. However, in practice this can have devastating effects on stuff as discussed here:

https://marc.info/?l=u-boot&m=162999598824381


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