Strange construct in binman description

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Jul 24 16:53:35 CEST 2023


Hi,

On Sun, 23 Jul 2023 at 03:00, Marcel Ziswiler
<marcel.ziswiler at toradex.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon
>
> On Jul 23, 2023 05:48, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Marcel,
>
> I just noticed this in an imx8 description:
>
> binman_configuration: @config-SEQ {
>
>
> I remember having stumbled over this before but I do not remember any exact details, sorry.
>
> Since this is a generator node, binman blindly generates a phandle for
> each not it generates. This means that if there is more than one
> config node, then they will have duplicate phandles.
>
> I have sent a series to correct this, but it fails the build on:
> imx8mm_venice imx8mn_venice imx8mp_venice
>
>
> Ah, now I get it. You mixed up venice (Gate works) with verdin (Toradex).
>
> I am a bit unsure about what this is supposed to do. Could you please
> take a look?
>
>
> I'm more than happy to do that but you are probably much better off enquiring Tim Harvey from Gateworks about this. I put him on CC.

Tim, any thoughts on this please?

Regards,
Simon


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