[PATCH v1] imx: imx8: apalis: switch to binman

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Oliver,

On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 9:39 AM Oliver Graute <oliver.graute at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Can't all boards use the common the binman nodes from
> > arch/arm/dts/imx8qm-u-boot.dtsi instead?
>
> I'am about to try that but I run into the following error:
>
> binman: Filename 'spl/u-boot-spl.bin' not found in input path (.,.,./board/toradex/apalis-imx8,arch/arm/dts) (cwd='/home/graute/u-boot-upstream')
> Makefile:1109: recipe for target 'all' failed
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>
> The error disappear if I remove binman/u-boot-spl-ddr and binman/spl
> node in the common file.
>
> So some of these boards needs the binman/u-boot-spl-ddr and binman/spl
> node and others not. What is the proper solution to deal with this
> difference here?

Looking inside configs/apalis-imx8_defconfig, I see it does not use
SPL. That's why 'spl/u-boot-spl.bin' is not present.

I think you should protect the  binman/u-boot-spl-ddr and binman/spl
nodes by adding #ifdef CONFIG_SPL.