[U-Boot] [PATCH v5 10/15] Makefile: Query the SPL Fit Generator for its dependencies

[Jean-Jacques Hiblot]

On 07/10/2019 18:02, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 11:43:07AM +0200, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote:
>> On 06/10/2019 19:12, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 04:57:29PM +0000, Auer, Lukas wrote:
>>>> Hi Jean-Jacques,
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2019-09-20 at 17:28 +0200, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote:
>>>>> To reduce the complexity of the Makefile, let the generator tell what its
>>>>> dependencies are. For this purpose use the "--deps" option.
>>>>>
>>>> We recently added a generic FIT generator script for RISC-V, located at
>>>> arch/riscv/lib/mkimage_fit_opensbi.sh . Can you add the --deps option
>>>> to that script as well? It does not have any dependencies, so it can be
>>>> handled the same way as in the i.MX and sunxi FIT generator scripts.
>>> Can we please work on generalizing these scripts and either using
>>> binman, updating binman as needed or coming up with a POSIX SH tool that
>>> can do what needs doing?  Thanks!
>> Maybe it can be done. But we would need to know first what the needs are.
>>
>> In may case, all I need is to bundle at build time a set of DTB overlays
>> with u-boot.bin and some DTBs.
>>
>> For this binman is overkill, using dtc is enough, though I guess binman can
>> be used instead.
> OK, and in this case we're talking about tools/k3_fit_atf.sh which is
> based on board/sunxi/mksunxi_fit_atf.sh ?  That's two similar but not
> quite just mergable POSIX SH tools.  If we end up with an intermediate
> state of having tools/generators/ with a number of $(soc)_fit_atf.sh
> scripts that'll start to make it clearer what is/isn't the same.  Maybe
> we won't have a single tool, but if it's at least make it clearer where
> things belong and we can get consistency.  Thanks!

I see your point. This patch is not essential for this series, so I'll 
drop this for the time being and try to come up with a better solution 
when adding SPL overlay support for AM6/J7.

JJ


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