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

[Jan Kiszka]

On 15.06.23 13:19, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 12:09, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Do you mean you would rather not use '-a CONFIG_OF_LIST'. Or are you
> wanting to filter that list based on something else?
> 
> I'm afraid I am really not following this at all.

CONFIG_OF_LIST is not working here as we have two different boards with
two different lists.

Jan

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