[PATCH] tools: Do not build kwbimage if CONFIG_TOOLS_LIBCRYPTO=n
Tom Rini
trini at konsulko.com
Tue Jan 11 20:09:17 CET 2022
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 07:58:05PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 1/11/22 17:16, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 04:36:34PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 11 January 2022 16:31:20 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > > The kwbimage has hard dependency on OpenSSL, do not build it
> > > > in case TOOLS_LIBCRYPTO is disabled.
> > >
> > > This patch does not work as kwbimage is required for 32-bit Armada
> > > platforms. So kwbimage.o cannot be disabled on these platforms.
> > >
> > > There is already proposal for fixing this issue:
> > > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/20211021093304.25399-1-pali@kernel.org/
> >
> > And needs to be respun to not have Kconfig issues. To answer something
> > noted in that thread, yes, it would be good if Kconfig did, or had an
> > option to make WARNING like that fatal. Or is the problem really that
> > no, it's non-optional, really, to have OpenSSL installed?
>
> OpenSSL should be optional, I got this bug report where someone tried to
> build u-boot on ancient debian oldoldstable with openssl 1.1.0 (without
> ecdsa support), for a platform which doesn't need any of this crypto stuff.
> So, disabling TOOLS_LIBCRYPTO was a sufficient for that platform to build in
> that setup (with this patch). And there are plenty of such platforms in the
> U-Boot tree (all that are not marvell I think).
Right. So your patch is a step in the right direction, but we also need
to have the appropriate platforms depend'ing on TOOLS_LIBCRYPTO and
updating the help to note that some platforms require it as well, to
build their images.
--
Tom
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