[U-Boot] [PATCH] rockchip: make_fit_atf: Use BL31 environ variable for file location

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 8:29 AM Shyam Saini <shyam at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Philipp, Emmanuel,
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 10:43 PM Jagan Teki <jagan at amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 4:24 PM Emmanuel Vadot <manu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Other make_fit script (like imx or sunxi) use the BL31 environment
> > > variable to indicate the location of the file.
> > > Also do that for rockchip so we don't need to copy the file in the source
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Vadot <manu at freebsd.org>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm/mach-rockchip/make_fit_atf.py | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/make_fit_atf.py b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/make_fit_atf.py
> > > index d1faff1957..7bf58e3dd1 100755
> > > --- a/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/make_fit_atf.py
> > > +++ b/arch/arm/mach-rockchip/make_fit_atf.py
> > > @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ def get_bl31_segments_info(bl31_file_name):
> > >
> > >  def main():
> > >      uboot_elf="./u-boot"
> > > -    bl31_elf="./bl31.elf"
> > > +    bl31_elf=os.getenv("BL31", "./bl31.elf")
> >
> > Have similar change on my repo.
> >
> > Better through warning for non BL31 like
> >
> > if "BL31ELF" in os.environ:
> >        bl31_elf=os.getenv("BL31ELF");
> >    else:
> >           sys.exit("ERROR: Please export BL31ELF file, check
> > board/rockchip/evb_rk3399/README)
> >
> > And BL31ELF would be proper env than BL31 since rockchip build would
> > require elf and other one has bin, IMHO.
>
> I think solution suggested by Jagan's is more generic and more useful.
> It doesn't hard code the path of bl31.elf file, instead it uses global
> BL31 environment variable.

In the AllWinner and current rk3399 devices where we use bl31 it looks
either in the root source of the root of the build output if that's
specified as part of the build process. That to me would be a minimum
as distros often build for numerous devices at once.

> If the path is hard coded then buildroot build fails for atleast
> rk3399 soc based boards because
> in buildroot it is [2] BL31=$(BINARIES_DIR)/bl31.elf, so it looks for
> bl31.elf file in binary directory
> instead of uboot directory.
>
> We encountered this build failure in recently while adding [1] RK3399
> NanoPi M4  support in buildroot.
>
> Could we consider solution suggested by Jagan while we can retain the
> variable name BL31 as is.
>
>
> [1] Buildroot thread
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2019-April/248219.html
> [2] BL31 buildroot variable
> https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/boot/uboot/uboot.mk#n140
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Shyam
> _______________________________________________
> U-Boot mailing list
> U-Boot at lists.denx.de
> https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot