On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:41:59AM +0200, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
Hi Sascha,
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:42:53 +0200, Sascha Silbe t-uboot@infra-silbe.de wrote:
Hello Albert, hello Tom,
Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot@aribaud.net writes:
[Move environment to account for increase in U-Boot size]
This patch is for 2013.10, not 2013.07, but I prefer raising the issue as early as possible.
If there is no way to make things smoother, then I think the 2013.10 release notes should contain a red, blinking, paragraph about this. I would *hate* it if people were not warned and given a method to port their current environment setting over.
Possibly even, the 2013.07 could have a warning about the change to come, so that people have a better chance yet to prepare for the change.
The situation has gotten better recently and U-Boot fits into the previous partition size of 384KiB again. So it isn't broken on OpenRD anymore and the above would seem like a good approach.
How well does it fit again, and do you have any idea what caused the increase in size, and what caused the decrease?
I imagine that adding -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections/--gc-sections is what brought the size back down again. We've been adding a lot of kinda optional code, and to avoid having to ifdef the hell out of everything, we've been relying on growth not being a big problem or just ignoring it.