Upcoming OpenSBI v1.2 release

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 1/17/23 23:59, Conor.Dooley at microchip.com wrote:
> On 27/12/2022 17:06, Samuel Holland wrote:
>> On 12/22/22 04:49, Conor.Dooley at microchip.com wrote:
> 
>>> We are incredibly tight on space in eNVM for the HSS as things stand,
>>> so it is likely that we will not move to later versions of OpenSBI
>>> than (maybe) v1.1 & stick to cherry-picking fixes.
>>> The last time the HSS bumped its OpenSBI version, the change in size
>>> of OpenSBI needed some working around IIRC.
>>
>> Adding Kconfig was quite helpful here. Now that there is an
>> officially-supported way to disable unused FDT drivers, my OpenSBI
>> builds for D1 are comfortably back under 256 KiB.
> 
> I brought it up last week but forgot to respond here.
> eNVM on PolarFire SoC is only 128 KiB and the HSS, of which OpenSBI
> is but a component, has to fit in that.
> As things stand, "we" are already cutting out swathes of code that is
> not used on the platform & relying on self decompression - but even
> with that it's a struggle to fit.
> 
> I don't think v1.2 (or later) is going to happen unfortunately!
> 
> Thanks
> 

Is OpenSBI necessarily a part of HSS or could it be moved in future HSS 
releases to an eMMC/SD-card partition?

Best regards

Heinrich