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

[Tom Rini]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 09:19:39AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Rasmus,
> 
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 04:16, Rasmus Villemoes
> <rasmus.villemoes at prevas.dk> 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.
> >
> > Generating potentially non-functional binaries by default, and currently
> > without even a way to opt out of that (that I have found), is frankly
> > not sane. Yeah, a warning is printed, but that easily scrolls away or in
> > the case of automated builds is hidden away in some log file people
> > would only ever look at if the job failed.
> >
> > I want my/our CI to _fail hard_ when I have failed to update the Yocto
> > metadata to stage the necessary blobs before do_compile. And if upstream
> > U-Boot want to continue to have this by default, can we at the very
> > least get an ergonomic way to opt out (preferably a CONFIG_ option I can
> > set or clear in my out-of-tree defconfig files).
> 
> How come it doesn't fail? Building should produce an error 101 in this
> case. Does it not? Please send the details if there is something
> wrong.

No, it does not.  You can see this for example with:
$ make galileo_config
...
$ make -sj16
Image 'main-section' is missing external blobs and is non-functional: intel-cmc
Image 'main-section' has faked external blobs and is non-functional: rmu.bin

Some images are invalid
$ echo $?
0

-- 
Tom
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