El jue, 19-10-2017 a las 15:24 +0200, Maxime Ripard escribió:
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 02:03:55PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
Hi,
On 19/10/17 09:26, 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.
Is that really such a problem? How many people rely on having their custom environment preserved over an update? (That's an honest question)
All of them, I guess. In your U-boot upgrade script, do you do a 'env default -a; saveenv' all the time ?
I know I don't.
I personally do not do anything to the environment ever if I can help it. I rely on u-boot having the smarts to just do the right thing and boot my system for me. if the environment moves, as I use the defaults it will just continue to work.
Dennis