[PATCH u-boot-mvebu 25/31] tools: kwbimage: Remove v1 kwbimage SPL padding to CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_OFFS bytes

Chris Packham judge.packham at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 02:37:25 CEST 2021


I'll take a proper look at the rest of the series this weekend. Just
noticed a couple of typos in the commit message of this patch.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 5:30 AM Marek Behún <marek.behun at nic.cz> wrote:
>
> From: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
>
> This padding depends on board config file and therere it makes the

s/therere/therefore/

> mkimage binary tool board specific, which is not correct. One cannot use
> mkimage tool built as a result for board A to generate images for board
> B, even if both A and B are on the same platform.
>
> This CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_OFFS padding was needed when v1 kwbimage contained
> SPL code which loaded main U-Boot binary itself, insted of letting

s/insted/instead/

> BootROM do it.
>
> Now that SPL code does not load main U-Boot itself and leaves this job to
> BootROM, there is no need for this padding anymore. BootROM correctly
> locates the second part (main U-Boot binary) in v1 kwbimage, loads it at
> correct address as specified in v1 kwbimage header and also jumps to
> correct execution address.
>
> Therefore this CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_OFFS padding is not needed anymore.
>
> By removing it we also reduce the size of SPL code and therefore also
> decrease the final size of v1 kwbimage. This means there is more space
> for main U-Boot binary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun at nic.cz>
> ---
>  tools/kwbimage.c | 13 -------------
>  1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/kwbimage.c b/tools/kwbimage.c
> index acd57267f4..656f3f9ae9 100644
> --- a/tools/kwbimage.c
> +++ b/tools/kwbimage.c
> @@ -998,19 +998,6 @@ static size_t image_headersz_v1(int *hasext)
>         }
>  #endif
>
> -#if defined(CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_OFFS)
> -       if (headersz > CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_OFFS) {
> -               fprintf(stderr,
> -                       "Error: Image header (incl. SPL image) too big!\n");
> -               fprintf(stderr, "header=0x%x CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_OFFS=0x%x!\n",
> -                       (int)headersz, CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_OFFS);
> -               fprintf(stderr, "Increase CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_OFFS!\n");
> -               return 0;
> -       }
> -
> -       headersz = CONFIG_SYS_U_BOOT_OFFS;
> -#endif
> -
>         /*
>          * The payload should be aligned on some reasonable
>          * boundary
> --
> 2.31.1
>


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