[PATCH v2 01/38] Makefile: Fake external blobs by default with binman

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Mon Oct 10 16:25:10 CEST 2022


On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 12:15:58PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 10/01/2022 04.13, Simon Glass wrote:
> > This behaviour is necessary with boards where the binman description
> > requires processing external blobs, since these may be missing.
> > 
> > Enable it by default, so that CI is happy. Warnings indicate that a valid
> > image is not produced, as with the --allow-missing option.
> 
> I know I have talked and warned about this before, and now I was
> actually bitten by it IRL.
> 
> Can we _please_ stop doing this by default. I understand why upstream
> U-Boot's CI system needs this, but it should be possible for that CI
> system to set an environment variable or pass a make parameter to opt-in
> to generating these fake blobs.

I've brought this up before as well, and it's not as bad as I feared it
would be to add this, so I'll post a patch shortly.

-- 
Tom
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