On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:12:36AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> 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. > > Ultimately the problem with the argument about disabling it by default > and distros can enable it if they want to is a false one.
If it's a false one, then I guess Red Hat doesn't have any kind of custom defconfigs for Fedora or RHEL for the kernel? > By enabling it by default we have devices that ship with SPI or NAND > flash, like a bunch of the OrangePis do now, be able to work with > all distributions out of the box without any requirements of distros > to produce a firmware (something I'd really prefer to leave to the > device makers) to boot a number of Linux OSes OOTB. That one is the false argument in the discussion. No vendor is providing such a U-Boot, all of them provide a vendor one that will not even be able to boot a mainline kernel, let alone supporting EFI. So having something that works out of the box is just a pipe dream. > I think this is a good thing for the entire ecosystem. I don't want > to regress that, I'd sooner get the size checks in place and then > review rather than what seems like a "quick win" I've added a size check. 3 boards are broken: - A20-OLinuXino-Lime2-eMMC - A20-OLinuXino-Lime2 - Cubietruck What now? Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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