Binman entry 'u-boot-any' not found in list

[Fabio Estevam]

[Adding Alper - binmam maintainer and Oliver, who faced the same issue on imx8]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 7:56 AM Neha Malcom Francis <n-francis at ti.com> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> U-Boot build for J721E with binman enabled on the latest tip of the
> master branch throws an error when I try to use u-boot-spl-nodtb entry
> in my dtsi.
>
> What I'm trying to do is, to show I've made a small example
> (https://github.com/nehamalcom/u-boot/commit/f53dc83944f7774008afbb24fff42904862e9efe)
> that is:
>
> &binman {
>         foo {
>                 filename = "foo.bin";
>                 u-boot-spl-nodtb {
>                 };
>         };
> };
>
> which throws the error
> (https://gist.github.com/nehamalcom/4d855db7e4d5bd03aa29099b0e915e53):
>
> binman: Section '/binman/foo': Symbol '_binman_u_boot_any_prop_image_pos'
>     in entry '/binman/foo/u-boot-spl-nodtb': Entry 'u-boot-any' not
> found in list (u-boot-spl-nodtb,main-section)
>
>
> This can be traced to the WriteSymbols() in etype/u_boot_spl_nodtb.py.
> On commenting out this function since it's not necessary in our
> use-case, the build was successful
> (https://github.com/nehamalcom/u-boot/commit/5666721860e1d2f759440a00c4aee8b6e89b54b3)
>
> Why is binman not picking up on the "any" and choosing u-boot-spl-nodtb
> from the list?
>
> --
> Thanking You
> Neha Malcom Francis