[PATCH 1/3] binman: Allow to define custom arguments

[Simon Glass]

Hi Jan,

On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 11:26, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com> wrote:
>
> On 12.06.23 23:17, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 at 15:39, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>
> >>
> >> Introduce BINMAN_EXTRA_ARGS that can be set per board, e.g., to inject
> >> specific settings. Will be used by IOT2050 first to define multiple
> >> of-lists.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com>
> >> ---
> >> CC: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> >> ---
> >>  Makefile | 1 +
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > I'm really not keen on this, since it means that the Makefile (or some
> > vars it sets) are again involved in controlling the image generation.
> > It should really all be in the binman image description / .dtsi file
>
> binman does not allow me to unrole of-list inside the dts file, does it?
> With such a feature, I wouldn't need any custom -a of-list-X switches
> and, thus, no such EXTRA_ARGS.

Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by 'unrole'? It is just
software, so anything should be possible.

Regards,
Simon

>
> Jan
>
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