[PATCH] binman: Add option for pointing to external description

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Wed Oct 9 03:55:31 CEST 2024


Hi Michal,

On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 at 07:05, Michal Simek <michal.simek at amd.com> wrote:
>
> Adding binman node with target images description can be unwanted feature
> but as of today there is no way to disable it.
> Also on size constrained systems it is not useful to add binman description
> to DTB.
> Introduce BINMAN_EXTERNAL_DTB Kconfig symbol which allows separate DTB for
> target from DTB for binman itself.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek at amd.com>
> ---
>
>  Makefile    |  2 +-
>  lib/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>

Doesn't this defeat one of the purposes of Binman, i.e. to document
images? We do want the .dts to include the image description. What
sort of problem is this causing?

Regards,
Simon


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