[PATCH v4 1/1] u-boot-initial-env: rework make target

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Wed Nov 23 19:18:40 CET 2022


On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:52:22AM +0100, Max Krummenacher wrote:

> From: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher at toradex.com>
> 
> With LTO enabled the U-Boot initial environment is no longer stored
> in an easy accessible section in env/common.o. I.e. the section name
> changes from build to build, its content maybe compressed and it is
> annotated with additional data.
> 
> Drop trying to read the initial env with elf tools from the compiler
> specific object file in favour of adding and using a host tool with
> the only functionality of printing the initial env to stdout.
> 
> See also:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/927b122e-1f62-e790-f5ca-30bae4332c77@foss.st.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Krummenacher <max.krummenacher at toradex.com>
> Acked-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>

Alright, so 'make tools-only_defconfig tools-only' now fails to build
because we're missing the dependencies to make sure that we have
generated/environment.h available.
https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/jobs/532186

-- 
Tom
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