[PATCH v7 06/11] sandbox: Build the mkeficapsule tool for the sandbox variants

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sun Aug 6 15:29:53 CEST 2023


On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:04:43PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 16:15, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 09:03:49AM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 05:35, Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Build the mkeficapsule tool for all the sandbox variants. This tool
> > > > will be used subsequently for testing capsule generation in binman.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sughosh Ganu <sughosh.ganu at linaro.org>
> > > > ---
> > > > Changes since V6:
> > > > * New patch which has been split up from the binman capsule entry
> > > >   support patch from earlier version, as suggested by Simon Glass.
> > > > * Enables mkeficapsule tool for all sandbox variants, instead of only
> > > >   for sandbox_spl variant.
> > > >
> > > >  tools/Kconfig | 6 +++---
> > > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > >
> > > At some point after this series is in, please take a look at why this
> > > tool isn't enabled for all builds.
> >
> > The tool requires a bunch of stuff (see the rules in tools/Makefile).
> 
> Oh, I see. It requires uuid and gnutils
> 
> Even so, would it be too bad to require those packages for building U-Boot?

We can always re-evaluate this later depending on the uptake of
capsules.  On the other hand we have a config for host tools only, for
distros to use, and this isn't the only "sometimes" tool.

-- 
Tom
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