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

[Jan Kiszka]

On 15.06.23 12:55, Simon Glass wrote:
> 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.

To use a DT sequence, I need to specify fit,ftd-list. But I can say

fit,ftd-list = "first.dtb second.dtb"

I rather need to go via the EntryArg indirection of the binman command line.

Jan

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