[PATCH u-boot 2/2] Makefile: Build working u-boot-dtb.bin target also for mpc85xx
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Thu Dec 29 23:39:11 CET 2022
Hi Pali,
On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 14:06, Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> U-Boot build process currently always produces broken u-boot-dtb.bin binary
> for PowerPC mpc85xx architecture on boards which needs mpc85xx reset
> vector. For these boards this (intermediate) binary is not used as input
> for any other Makefile target on this architecture, so there is no real
> problem with it.
>
> But it is not a good idea to produce broken binaries during build phase. So
> try to improve it. Binary u-boot-dtb.bin should contains u-boot code with
> DTB blob. Such binary for those boards is build by binman. So change binman
> output file name from u-boot.bin to u-boot-dtb.bin and then let generic
> Makefile rule to generate final u-boot.bin from u-boot-dtb.bin. And finally
> disable generic u-boot-dtb.bin rule for mpc85xx.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> ---
> Makefile | 17 ++++++++---------
> arch/powerpc/dts/socrates-u-boot.dtsi | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/dts/u-boot.dtsi | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Can you instead use a new filename, like u-boot-powerpc.bin for this?
I'm not fan of adding SoC-specific rules in the Makefile - in fact
one of the goals of binman is to drop these.
Regards,
Simon
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