[PATCH] odroid-go2: remove setting SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR

Roger Pau Monné royger at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 22 10:15:31 CET 2021


On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 02:08:55PM +0100, Heiko Stuebner wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Am Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2021, 03:21:25 CET schrieb Tom Rini:
> > I would say that yes, it's quite intentional that all boards for a given
> > SoC (or SoC family) would use the same value for
> > SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR and NOT leave it up to be per-board.
> > It should be a matter of kilobytes being potentially wasted which is
> > (often or most likely) worth sacrificing in the name of consistency and
> > ease of future use / development.  In other cases this ends up being
> > something around "ROM will only load something of $X size, round that up
> > a little bit, place U-Boot there, as it's the next thing to load".
> 
> Ok ... then I'guess I'll not stand in the way ;-) .
> 
> Though we're in the megabyte range with
> CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR being 0x4000 * 512 .
> But I guess with current emmc sizes that might not matter too much.
> 
> But should there be some sort of warning when the
> CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR doesn't match the expected
> value? Because for example rk3399-puma and rk3368-lion historical use that
> 0x200 instead of 0x4000 block offset and I think at least their default
> firmware also expects u-boot to not reach that far into the emmc.

Hello,

It's not clear to me whether there's anything else expected from my side
to get this accepted. Could you please clarify if the current patch is
OK, or if it needs any changes?

Thanks, Roger.


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