[U-Boot] [PATCH] arm64: zynqmp: accept an absolute path for PMUFW_INIT_FILE

[Michal Simek]

On 31.5.2018 14:58, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> The value of PMUFW_INIT_FILE is prefixed with "$(srctree)/", thus
> forcing it to be a relative path inside the U-Boot source tree. Since
> the PMUFW is a binary file generated outside of U-Boot, the PMUFW
> binary must be copied inside the U-Boot source tree before the
> build.
> 
> This generates a few problems:
> 
>  * if the source tree is shared among different out-of-tree builds,
>    they will pollute (and potentially corrupt) each other
>  * the source tree cannot be read-only
>  * any buildsystem must add a command to copy the PMUFW binary
>  * putting an externally-generated binary in the source tree is ugly
>    as hell
> 
> Avoid these problems by accepting an absolute path for
> PMUFW_INIT_FILE. This would be as simple as removing the "$(srctree)/"
> prefix, but in order to keep backward compatibility we rather use the
> shell and readlink to get the absolute path even when starting from a
> relative path.
> 
> Tested in the 9 possible combinations of:
>  - PMUFW_INIT_FILE empty, relative or absolute
>  - building in-tree, in subdir, in other directory
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
> Cc: Michal Simek <michal.simek at xilinx.com>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
>  scripts/Makefile.spl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.spl b/scripts/Makefile.spl
> index 057389997de6..ef1681ef4bf5 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.spl
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.spl
> @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ MKIMAGEFLAGS_boot.bin = -T zynqimage -R $(srctree)/$(CONFIG_BOOT_INIT_FILE)
>  endif
>  ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ZYNQMP
>  MKIMAGEFLAGS_boot.bin = -T zynqmpimage -R $(srctree)/$(CONFIG_BOOT_INIT_FILE) \
> -	-n $(srctree)/$(CONFIG_PMUFW_INIT_FILE)
> +	-n "$(shell cd $(srctree); readlink -m $(CONFIG_PMUFW_INIT_FILE))"
>  endif
>  
>  spl/boot.bin: $(obj)/u-boot-spl.bin FORCE
> 

looks good.

Tom: Do we still have people who build u-boot on BSD system?
I would like to know if this readlink -m works there.

Thanks,
Michal