Based on several reports and discussions [1], [2] it is clear that U-Boot's footprint is always a concern, and any kind of reduction is an improvement.
In particular dtb is one of the sources of footprint increment, as U-Boot uses the same dtb as Linux. However is interesting to note that U-Boot does not require all the nodes and properties declared in it. Some improvements in this sense are already present, such as removing properties based on configuration and using specific "u-boot" properties to keep only specific node in SPL. However, this require manual configuration.
Additionally reducing dtb, will allow ATF for better handing FDT buffer, which is an issue in some contexts [3].
In order to improve this situation, this patch adds a proof of concept for dtb shrink. The idea behind this is simple, remove all the nodes from dtb which compatible string is not supported by any driver present. This approach makes sense for those configuration where Linux is expected to have its own dtb.
This patch is based on the work of Simon Glass present in [4] which adds support to dtoc for parsing compatible strings.
Some early untested results shows that the reduction in size is 50 % in case of mx6_cuboxi_defconfig, which is promising.
Some additional reduction could be possible by only keeping the nodes for whose compatible string is supported by any enabled driver. However, this requires to add extra logic to parse config files and map configuration to compatible strings.
This proof of concept uses fdtgrep to implement the node removal, but the idea is to implement this logic inside the dtoc for better handling.
[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20200525093539.1.Ibf2d19439c... [2] http://u-boot.10912.n7.nabble.com/PATCH-v1-00-15-add-basic-driver-support-fo... [3] https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/4512 [4] https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-dm/-/tree/dtoc-working
Signed-off-by: Walter Lozano walter.lozano@collabora.com --- tools/dtoc/dtb_platdata.py | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/dtoc/dtb_platdata.py b/tools/dtoc/dtb_platdata.py index 21cce5afb5..1df13b2cd2 100644 --- a/tools/dtoc/dtb_platdata.py +++ b/tools/dtoc/dtb_platdata.py @@ -399,7 +399,10 @@ class DtbPlatdata(object): """Scan the driver folders to build a list of driver names and possible aliases """ - for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk('/home/sglass/u'): + basedir = sys.argv[0].replace('tools/dtoc/dtoc', '') + if basedir == '': + basedir = './' + for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(basedir): for fn in filenames: if not fn.endswith('.c'): continue @@ -802,6 +805,32 @@ class DtbPlatdata(object): self.out(''.join(self.get_buf())) self.close_output()
+ def shrink(self): + """Generate a shrunk version of DTB bases on valid drivers + + This function removes nodes from dtb which compatible string is not + found in drivers. The output is saved in a file with suffix name -shrink.dtb + """ + compat = [] + cmd = './tools/fdtgrep ' + #print(self._drivers) + for dr in self._drivers.values(): + compat = compat + dr.compat + + for cp in compat: + #print(cp) + cmd += ' -c ' + cp + + cmd += ' -O dtb -o ' + self._dtb_fname.replace('.dtb', '') + '-shrink.dtb ' + self._dtb_fname + + if False: + with open('dt_shrink.sh', 'w+') as script: + script.write(cmd) + + os.system(cmd) + + return + def run_steps(args, dtb_file, config_file, include_disabled, output): """Run all the steps of the dtoc tool
@@ -816,6 +845,10 @@ def run_steps(args, dtb_file, config_file, include_disabled, output): if not args: raise ValueError('Please specify a command: struct, platdata')
+ skip_scan = False + if args == ['shrink']: + skip_scan = True + plat = DtbPlatdata(dtb_file, config_file, include_disabled) plat.scan_drivers() plat.scan_dtb() @@ -823,14 +856,17 @@ def run_steps(args, dtb_file, config_file, include_disabled, output): plat.scan_config() plat.scan_reg_sizes() plat.setup_output(output) - structs = plat.scan_structs() - plat.scan_phandles() + if not skip_scan: + structs = plat.scan_structs() + plat.scan_phandles()
for cmd in args[0].split(','): if cmd == 'struct': plat.generate_structs(structs) elif cmd == 'platdata': plat.generate_tables() + elif cmd == 'shrink': + plat.shrink() else: raise ValueError("Unknown command '%s': (use: struct, platdata)" % cmd)