On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 04:50:55PM -0600, Judith Mendez wrote:
From: Hong Guan hguan@ti.com
Fix u-boot NAND partition in MTDPARTS_DEFAULT since the size of u-boot image has grown beyond 1MB and no longer fits in 1MB NAND partition, thus we are failing to flash and boot via GPMC NAND.
Increase the size of NAND.u-boot to 2MB since the size of u-boot.img is currently 1.4M.
Signed-off-by: Hong Guan hguan@ti.com [Judith: extend fix to HS defconfigs and add commit msg] Signed-off-by: Judith Mendez jm@ti.com
This patch is marked RFC to understand if solution is acceptable since changing partition sizes will not be backwards compatible solution.
One other solution was too try to reduce the size of u-boot proper, but removing features (boot modes.. etc) did not seem to get the size of u-boot proper to 1MB with a usable u-boot proper.
So the big problem here is that we have more space being taken up by device trees than U-Boot itself. A quick mkimage -l and adding things up shows that we have 851936 bytes of device trees. You should look at switching to MULTI_DTB_FIT and enabling some compression, along with possibly LTO of U-Boot itself.