On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:41:59AM +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote: > Hi Sascha, > > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:42:53 +0200, Sascha Silbe > <t-ub...@infra-silbe.de> wrote: > > > Hello Albert, hello Tom, > > > > Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.b...@aribaud.net> writes: > > > > [Move environment to account for increase in U-Boot size] > > > This patch is for 2013.10, not 2013.07, but I prefer raising the issue > > > as early as possible. > > > > > > If there is no way to make things smoother, then I think the 2013.10 > > > release notes should contain a red, blinking, paragraph about this. I > > > would *hate* it if people were not warned and given a method to port > > > their current environment setting over. > > > > > > Possibly even, the 2013.07 could have a warning about the change to > > > come, so that people have a better chance yet to prepare for the > > > change. > > > > The situation has gotten better recently and U-Boot fits into the > > previous partition size of 384KiB again. So it isn't broken on OpenRD > > anymore and the above would seem like a good approach. > > How well does it fit again, and do you have any idea what caused the > increase in size, and what caused the decrease?
I imagine that adding -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections/--gc-sections is what brought the size back down again. We've been adding a lot of kinda optional code, and to avoid having to ifdef the hell out of everything, we've been relying on growth not being a big problem or just ignoring it. -- Tom
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