External dts building

[Simon Glass]

Hi Giulio,

On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 13:23, Giulio Benetti
<giulio.benetti at benettiengineering.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> > Il giorno 14 ott 2021, alle ore 20:24, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> ha scritto:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 07:46, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 02:53:30AM +0200, Giulio Benetti wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello All,
> >>>
> >>> is there a way to pass a dts file without touching the arch/arm/boot/dts/Makefile?
> >>>
> >>> On Buildroot we support the possibility to pass an external dts by copying it to the uboot sources to
> >>> be built but since uboot version 2020.01 it doesn’t work anymore.
> >>>
> >>> So I’ve proposed a patch to prepend the dts file in the Makefile above, but this has drawbacks, like we reconfigure(it keeps adding files every time).
> >>>
> >>> So I ask you, is there a more canonical way already to achieve this?
> >>
> >> Not exactly, and it's something we're very much actively discussing
> >> right now.
> >
> > Are you using 'make DEVICE_TREE=xxx' ?
>
> Yes but it doesn’t work if you don’t add an entry into arch/arm/dts/Makefile
> Before version 2020.01 worked, but not after it.

What board are you building?

Regards,
Simon