On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:06:15AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Maxime Ripard > <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 09:43:20AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Maxime Ripard > >> <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> wrote: > >> > The EFI loader support takes around 31kB on an ARMv7 board, which makes > >> > us > >> > trip across the size limit we've had on the U-Boot binary. > >> > > >> > Since it's not an essential feature, disable it by default for ARCH_SUNXI > >> > so that we get back some extra room for user customisations. > >> > >> Does this disable it on aarch64 boards by default such as the Pine64? > >> If so NAK as Fedora, SUSE and I'm pretty sure Debian all use EFI to > >> boot aarch64 devices and this would regress this for all those > >> distros. > > > > This is something that Fedora, Suse and I'm pretty sure Debian can add > > to their defconfig. These are just default configuration, not > > one-size-fits-all configuration. > > So you're making at least three groups of users do more work? It could > also be argued that those that need the smaller space could disable it > if they don't need it in their configuration.
I don't think asking people to modify their default configuration in order to have U-Boot booting is reasonable, is it? Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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