[PATCH] common: fastboot: make CONFIG_FASTBOOT_SPARSE=y the default
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Thu Jul 9 06:10:06 PDT 2026
Back in 2018, sparse support was made optional as "[s]parse support
is not always desired" without further elaboration.
Arguably the majority of users would benefit from sparse support enabled,
so flip the Kconfig default to make it opt-out instead.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
@Sascha, do you recall what reasons would there be to disable sparse
support? As I can't think of any besides binary size, I chose not to
include a migration guide entry about the default changing.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
common/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/common/Kconfig b/common/Kconfig
index f7122d89c6e2..85df7f7daec6 100644
--- a/common/Kconfig
+++ b/common/Kconfig
@@ -1478,6 +1478,7 @@ config FASTBOOT_SPARSE
bool
select IMAGE_SPARSE
prompt "Enable Fastboot sparse image support"
+ default y
help
Sparse images are a way for the fastboot protocol to write
images that are bigger than the available memory. If unsure,
--
2.47.3
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