[PATCH 9/9] Makefile: Show binman missing blob message

Jonas Karlman jonas at kwiboo.se
Sun Feb 19 23:02:07 CET 2023


When binman is invoked during a build of U-Boot and an external blob is
missing, the user is usually presented with a generic file not found in
input path message.

Invoke binman with --allow-missing so that binman can show relevant
missing blob help messages. Build continue to fail with missing blobs
unless BINMAN_ALLOW_MISSING=1 is used.

This changes the following error message:

  binman: Filename 'atf-bl31' not found in input path (...)

to the following:

  Image 'itb' is missing external blobs and is non-functional: atf-blob

  /binman/itb/fit/images/atf/atf-blob (bl31.bin):
     See the documentation for your board. You may need to build ARM Trusted
     Firmware and build with BL31=/path/to/bl31.bin

Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas at kwiboo.se>
---
 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 58f8c7a35335..c2860824f6f2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ cmd_binman = $(srctree)/tools/binman/binman $(if $(BINMAN_DEBUG),-D) \
                 --toolpath $(objtree)/tools \
 		$(if $(BINMAN_VERBOSE),-v$(BINMAN_VERBOSE)) \
 		build -u -d u-boot.dtb -O . -m \
-		$(if $(BINMAN_ALLOW_MISSING),--allow-missing --ignore-missing) \
+		--allow-missing $(if $(BINMAN_ALLOW_MISSING),--ignore-missing) \
 		-I . -I $(srctree) -I $(srctree)/board/$(BOARDDIR) \
 		-I arch/$(ARCH)/dts -a of-list=$(CONFIG_OF_LIST) \
 		$(foreach f,$(BINMAN_INDIRS),-I $(f)) \
-- 
2.39.2



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