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* [PATCH master] ARM: omap: add two smaller MLO defconfigs for AM335x
@ 2024-12-01 21:29 Ahmad Fatoum
  2024-12-01 22:53 ` Sohaib Mohamed
  2024-12-02 11:06 ` Sascha Hauer
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ahmad Fatoum @ 2024-12-01 21:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: barebox; +Cc: Sohaib Mohamed, Ahmad Fatoum

The Beaglebone Black remains a popular board and it's not a good look to
have it not compile by default due to barebox getting too big.

As we keep running into size issues with the MLO defconfig, let's accept
that we die bite off more than we could chew and split off the defconfigs
into one for SD/MMC and another for NOR/NAND and document that users
should prefer those instead.

Reported-by: Sohaib Mohamed <sohaib.amhmd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
---
 Documentation/boards/am335x.rst    | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 arch/arm/Makefile                  |  6 ++++++
 common/boards/configs/nomci.config |  1 +
 common/boards/configs/nomtd.config |  1 +
 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 common/boards/configs/nomci.config
 create mode 100644 common/boards/configs/nomtd.config

diff --git a/Documentation/boards/am335x.rst b/Documentation/boards/am335x.rst
index f54611428bb3..ec7322a0acdf 100644
--- a/Documentation/boards/am335x.rst
+++ b/Documentation/boards/am335x.rst
@@ -8,9 +8,15 @@ loader from the same medium.
 Building barebox
 ----------------
 
-The TI AM335x boards in barebox are covered by the ``am335x_mlo_defconfig``
-for the MLO and ``omap_defconfig`` for the regular barebox image. The
-resulting images will be placed under ``images/``:
+Booting with barebox on the TI AM335x is a two-stage process and unlike
+more recently added SoCs, requires building barebox twice, each time
+with a different defconfig:
+
+* ``omap_defconfig`` for the regular (second-stage) barebox image
+* For the MLO first-stage, either ``am335x_mlo_sdmmc_defconfig`` for
+  SD/eMMC or ``am335x_mlo_rawflash_defconfig`` for raw NOR/NAND.
+
+The resulting images will be placed under ``images/``:
 
 ::
 
@@ -30,6 +36,22 @@ resulting images will be placed under ``images/``:
 
 Some boards come in different variants, make sure to pick the correct one.
 
+Size Constraints
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+As the MLO needs to setup DRAM first, it must fit into the 109KiB
+of available on-Chip SRAM. Depending on the boards, drivers and general
+features enabled by your config, barebox may exceed this size resulting
+in an error message during build, e.g.::
+
+  images/start_am33xx_myirtech_sram.pblb size 111800 > maximum size 111616
+
+If you run into this issue, consider disabling some unneeded config options
+for the MLO via ``make menuconfig`` and try again.
+The ``am335x_mlo_sdmmc_defconfig`` and ``am335x_mlo_rawflash_defconfig``
+defconfigs do just that by disabling ``CONFIG_MTD`` and ``CONFIG_MCI``,
+respectively.
+
 Starting and updating barebox
 -----------------------------
 
diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index 6785432c52ca..7138f638651e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := multi_v8_defconfig
 
+generated_configs += $(patsubst %, %_defconfig, sdmmc rawflash)
+am335x_mlo_sdmmc_defconfig:
+	$(call merge_into_defconfig,am335x_mlo_defconfig,nomtd)
+am335x_mlo_rawflash_defconfig:
+	$(call merge_into_defconfig,am335x_mlo_defconfig,nomci)
+
 KBUILD_CPPFLAGS	+= -D__ARM__ -fno-strict-aliasing
 # Explicitly specifiy 32-bit ARM ISA since toolchain default can be -mthumb:
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_64),y)
diff --git a/common/boards/configs/nomci.config b/common/boards/configs/nomci.config
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f541645cccfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/boards/configs/nomci.config
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# CONFIG_MCI is not set
diff --git a/common/boards/configs/nomtd.config b/common/boards/configs/nomtd.config
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f29845573ae6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/boards/configs/nomtd.config
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# CONFIG_MTD is not set
-- 
2.39.5




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