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.ripard@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.ripard@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