[PATCH 1/2] spl: riscv: Disable SPL_BINMAN_UBOOT_SYMBOLS by default

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Apr 7 12:50:07 CEST 2025


Hi Yao,

On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 at 15:38, Yao Zi <ziyao at disroot.org> wrote:
>
> The default binman configuration of RISC-V wraps proper U-Boot into a
> FIT image instead of shipping a plain image, thus there's no
> "u_boot_any" entry by default. Let's disable the option to prevent
> binman from looking for a plain proper U-Boot image, failing the build
> with message like
>
>   Section '/binman/spl-img': Symbol '_binman_u_boot_any_prop_size'
>      in entry '/binman/spl-img/mkimage/u-boot-spl/u-boot-spl-nodtb':
>        Entry 'u-boot-any' not found in list (u-boot-spl-nodtb,
>        u-boot-spl-dtb,u-boot-spl,mkimage,spl-img)

Do you know where the symbol is being referenced? This sounds like a bug to me.

It is likely to be spl_get_image_pos(), perhaps called from
spl_set_header_raw_uboot().

If you are using FIT that function should not be called.

>
> Signed-off-by: Yao Zi <ziyao at disroot.org>
> ---
>  common/spl/Kconfig | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/common/spl/Kconfig b/common/spl/Kconfig
> index 7d6780936d1..356ddab38de 100644
> --- a/common/spl/Kconfig
> +++ b/common/spl/Kconfig
> @@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ config SPL_BINMAN_UBOOT_SYMBOLS
>         bool "Declare binman symbols for U-Boot phases in SPL"
>         depends on SPL_BINMAN_SYMBOLS
>         default n if ARCH_IMX8M || ARCH_IMX8ULP || ARCH_IMX9
> +       # A FIT image is created with default binman configuration of RISC-V
> +       default n if RISCV
>         default y
>         help
>           This enables use of symbols in SPL which refer to U-Boot phases,
> --
> 2.49.0
>

Regards,
Simon


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