[PATCH v8 00/13] bootstd: Convert rockchip and add various fixes and tweaks

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 at 17:03, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 at 18:07, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 09, 2023 at 08:18:31AM +1200, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > Hi Tom,
> > >
[..]

> > > > Because that's the key here, on the 564 platforms that use
> > > > distro_bootcmd today, there shouldn't be any growth when we switch to
> > > > bootstd, and there's even more platforms that enable
> > > > CONFIG_DISTRO_DEFAULTS than there are that use distro_bootcmd so the
> > > > cases like xilinx mini should be the exception, not the rule.  And
> > > > that's what I keep circling back to. The logic to keep the defaults that
> > > > generic distro support needs are (almost) always already set on the
> > > > platforms that are using generic distro boot, so we shouldn't grow in
> > > > size when bootstd turns it on.  And if I'm changing my mind about
> > > > forcing this on, on platforms that hadn't been doing generic distro
> > > > before, I guess I'm changing my mind, sorry, there's too many platforms
> > > > that are doing other things (not generic distro or Android or Special
> > > > Things).
> > >
> > > Yes I agree there should be no size growth for platforms which use
> > > distro_bootcmd today and move to bootstd. That is easy enough to check
> > > as part of migration. For the rpi and rockchip series the size reduces
> > > from where we are today by 1-12KB.
> >
> > It shouldn't change it at all tho, let alone reduce? Why is it reducing?

Just on this point, which I missed, dropping the scripts in the
environment reduces the size by 4-5KB depending on the board. Dropping
hush can reduce by quite a lot. Standard boot does not need scripts or
hush.

Regards,
Simon