[PATCH u-boot] powerpc/mpc85xx: socrates: Re-enable building u-boot-socrates.bin
Pali Rohár
pali at kernel.org
Fri Dec 30 13:44:04 CET 2022
Tom, would you take this patch to master?
On Wednesday 28 December 2022 19:18:39 Pali Rohár wrote:
> U-Boot build system builds final U-Boot binary for socrates board in custom
> file u-boot-socrates.bin (instead of standard u-boot.bin). Output target
> file u-boot-socrates.bin is generated by binman as defined in board binman
> config file arch/powerpc/dts/socrates-u-boot.dtsi.
>
> But binman was disabled in commit 5af42eafd7e1 ("Makefile: Reduce usage of
> custom mpc85xx u-boot.bin target") for all mpc85xx boards which do not use
> standard powerpc binman config file arch/powerpc/dts/u-boot.dtsi and boards
> which do not require binman at all.
>
> The only such mpc85xx board is socrates. So since that commit, U-Boot does
> not final binary for socrates board anymore.
>
> Fix this issue by re-enabling binman for socrates board. And build process
> starts again producing u-boot-socrates.bin binary.
>
> Note that build process for this socrates board always produce u-boot.bin
> binary which is broken and not usable for socrates board. Long term
> solution should be to disable building broken binary u-boot.bin and then
> renaming u-boot-socrates.bin to u-boot.bin, or switching to use common
> powerpc binman config file arch/powerpc/dts/socrates-u-boot.dtsi (if it is
> possible).
>
> Fixes: 5af42eafd7e1 ("Makefile: Reduce usage of custom mpc85xx u-boot.bin target")
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>
> ---
> Heiko Schocher: Could you test if u-boot is still working on this board?
>
> Tom Rini: Cannot be this issue handled by CI? For example that CI check
> build process produce required output binaries?
> ---
> arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/Kconfig
> index 24d3f1f20c25..4c765efab7a5 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/mpc85xx/Kconfig
> @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ choice
> config TARGET_SOCRATES
> bool "Support socrates"
> select ARCH_MPC8544
> + select BINMAN
>
> config TARGET_P3041DS
> bool "Support P3041DS"
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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