On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:51:04AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 10/19/2017 10:26 AM, Maxime Ripard 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. > > > > Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.rip...@free-electrons.com> > > Quite the contrary - it is essential. All major distributions are going for > distro boot + EFI at least for 64bit platforms now. Disabling it by default > means you basically kill your user base on those.
EFI is mandatory for 32 and 64 bit OpenBSD arm. I would not be surprised if others made similiar choices to be able to boot off filesystems unsupported by U-Boot and have something close to a real firmware interface. > > > --- > > lib/efi_loader/Kconfig | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig b/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig > > index d2b6327119b4..a80a914b2fe8 100644 > > --- a/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig > > +++ b/lib/efi_loader/Kconfig > > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > > config EFI_LOADER > > bool "Support running EFI Applications in U-Boot" > > depends on (ARM || X86) && OF_LIBFDT > > - default y > > + default y if !ARCH_SUNXI > > Nack on any change to that default line. If you must disable efi_loader (and > really, I strongly advise not to do so for sunxi), please do so in the > defconfigs, as nothing prohibits the architecture to work with it. > > > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot@lists.denx.de > https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
