linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] clk: mediatek: Add MediaTek Helio X10 MT6795 clock drivers

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Date:   Fri, 20 May 2022 12:54:38 +0800
From:   Miles Chen <miles.chen@...iatek.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] clk: mediatek: Add MediaTek Helio X10 MT6795 clock drivers

Hi Angelo,

>For MT8195... and 92, 83, 73... and others from the same era, being them for
>chromebooks, iot, smartphones and whatever else... yeah you're totally right.
>
>The issue starts raising when looking at older SoCs featuring an older bootloader
>that does have a kernel size limitation; for example, to make the loader happy on
>MT6795, I had to strip the defconfig a lot and keep the Android-style boot.img
>smaller than 10MB (that's Image.gz-dtb + ramdisk).

I think you have the point :-)
I did not consider the older SoCs case you mentioned and there is a real 10MB limit.
I'm fine with this.

ChenYu, What do you think?

thanks,
Miles