On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:44:54AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 10/19/2017 10:26 AM, Maxime Ripard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Most featureful boards, such as the Cubietruck, have been broken since > > the release 2017.09. > > > > This is due to a size increase of the binary that will trip us across > > the size we've been using in the u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin file. > > > > We would have two ways to work around it. The first one would be to > > just increase the offset of the environment. However, since it would > > break all the environments of our users and possibly the custom > > partition scheme that they would have created, it doesn't really seem > > like a smart move. > > > > Another one would be to start trimming down a bit our enabled options > > in order to reduce the size and to gain some extra space for users > > customisations. I've taken care some of the low hanging fruits, and we > > should probably take another go at it in the future (and add a size > > check in the image build somehow?) > > How about we add the size check first before crippling the feature > set of sunxi boards? Then maybe rather disable lesser used features > than efi_loader?
All the features have some users. All the kind of arguments that have
been sent so far are that "but I use this feature". Yes. You probably
do. But you can have the same kind of argument for any of the features
enabled.
Let's look at the features enabled by a Cubietruck defconfig:
- GMAC: I'm pretty sure there's some people using network out there,
and you don't want to break those.
- AHCI: I'm pretty sure there's some people using their SATA disk
out there, and you don't want to break those.
- PSCI: I'm pretty sure there's some people using multiple CPUs out
there, and you don't want to break those.
- Fastboot: I'm pretty sure there's some people reflashing their
systems out there, and you don't want to break those.
- DFU: I'm pretty sure there's some people reflashing their systems
out there and that don't like fastboot, and you don't want to
break those.
- MMC: I'm pretty sure there's some people using their MMC card
out there, and you don't want to break those.
- USB: I'm pretty sure there's some people using their USB devices
out there, and you don't want to break those.
tl; dr: using that kind of argument, nothing is removed, and we keep
building non-functional (as in, non-booting) binaries. Is that
*really* what you're suggesting?
Maxime
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