On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:26:46AM +0200, 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.
Another one would be to start trimming down a bit our enabled options in order to reduce the size and to gain some extra space for users customisations. I've taken care some of the low hanging fruits, and we should probably take another go at it in the future (and add a size check in the image build somehow?)
So, where is the over-run exactly? We have CONFIG_SPL_MAX_SIZE to ensure that we have SPL fitting within constraints. For U-Boot itself we don't have a generic check but it's usually done with a custom linker script (which could in turn just #include the regular one I think).