[U-Boot] [U-Boot,v6,11/13] sunxi: Use binman for sunxi boards

[Tom Rini]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 02:38:02PM +0100, Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 22:08:03 -0700
> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Emmanuel,
> > 
> > On 28 December 2016 at 03:57, Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 11:30:10 +0100
> > > Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>  Hello Simon,
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 01:39:06 -0700
> > >> Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > On 18 December 2016 at 19:48, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >> > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 08:16:01PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> > >> > >
> > >> > >> Move sunxi boards to use binman. This involves adding the image definition
> > >> > >> to the device tree and using it in the Makefile.
> > >> > >>
> > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > >> > >
> > >> > > --
> > >> > > Tom
> > >> >
> > >> > Applied to u-boot-dm and now in mainline.
> > >>
> > >>  Shouldn't all the config for sunxi board defines
> > >> CONFIG_SPL_OF_PLATDATA=y now so libfdt.so will be built ?
> > >>
> > >
> > >  Sorry, I meant the python module.
> > 
> > Well for now an easier solution is to build sandbox_spl once. My plan
> > is to upstream the Python bindings to libfdt, but it's slow going.
> > There should be no major consequence to not having the module. It is
> > just fractionally slower.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Simon
> 
>  On FreeBSD we don't have fdtget as part as our base system and it's
> not available in the ports (well now it is).
>  For now we simply don't depend on CONFIG_SPL_OF_PLATDATA to compile
> the swig bindings as it's faster to compile/use it than using fdtget.
>  Maybe this patch
> https://people.freebsd.org/~manu/uboot/2017.01/0001-build-Always-build-the-libfdt-python-module.patch
> make sense to be upstream in u-boot ?
>  It doesn't take that long to compile the bindings and there is still
> the check on the presence of the swig binary.

Yes, I think the FreeBSD patch there should be upstream, it seems
reasonable enough for portability.

-- 
Tom
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