[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 08/10] binman: Automatically include a U-Boot .dtsi file

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Oct 6 04:04:09 CEST 2016


On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:51:04AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Masahiro,
> 
> On 4 October 2016 at 21:51, Masahiro Yamada
> <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
> >
> > 2016-10-05 9:25 GMT+09:00 Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>:
> > > For boards that need U-Boot-specific additions to the device tree, it is
> > > a minor annoyance to have to add these each time the tree is synced with
> > > upstream.
> > >
> > > Add a means to include a file (e.g. u-boot.dtsi) automatically into the .dts
> > > file before it is compiled.
> > >
> > > The file uses is the first one that exists in this list:
> > >
> > >    arch/<arch>/dts/<board.dts>-u-boot.dtsi
> > >    arch/<arch>/dts/<cpu>-u-boot.dtsi
> > >    arch/<arch>/dts/<vendor>-u-boot.dtsi
> > >    arch/<arch>/dts/u-boot.dtsi
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > > Suggested-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Changes in v3:
> > > - Add a new patch to automatically include a U-Boot .dtsi file
> > >
> > > Changes in v2: None
> > >
> > >  scripts/Makefile.lib | 15 ++++++++++++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> > > index 2539ba5..b414a0c 100644
> > > --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
> > > +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> > > @@ -164,6 +164,17 @@ cpp_flags      = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(UBOOTINCLUDE)     \
> > >
> > >  ld_flags       = $(LDFLAGS) $(ldflags-y)
> > >
> > > +dts_dir = $(srctree)/arch/$(ARCH)/dts
> > > +
> > > +# Try these files in order to find the U-Boot-specific .dtsi include file
> > > +binman_dtsi_options = $(wildcard $(dts_dir)/$(basename $(notdir $<))-u-boot.dtsi) \
> > > +       $(wildcard $(dts_dir)/$(subst $\",,$(CONFIG_SYS_CPU))-u-boot.dtsi) \
> > > +       $(wildcard $(dts_dir)/$(subst $\",,$(CONFIG_SYS_VENDOR))-u-boot.dtsi) \
> > > +       $(wildcard $(dts_dir)/u-boot.dtsi)
> > > +
> > > +# We use the first match
> > > +binman_dtsi = $(firstword $(binman_dtsi_options))
> > > +
> >
> >
> > I do not think this feature is binman-specific.
> >
> > Perhaps u_boot_dtsi?
> >
> > We are already suffering from U-Boot specific properties like
> > "u-boot,dm-pre-reloc", which make it difficult to
> > simply copy DT files from the kernel tree.
> > So, my first guess was this feature might be useful
> > to split such properties out to *-u-boot.dtsi.
> > (it is a trade-off of more and more DT files, though.)
> 
> Yes that was Tom's intent. True, it is not binman-specific and I'm
> happy to change the variable, but let's see if this solves the problem
> first.

It certainly looks like it, thanks!  Perhaps a 11/10 patch to migrate
some platforms u-boot,dm-pre-reloc flags? :)

-- 
Tom
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