[PATCH 0/3] rockchip: remove u-boot.rom generation and use binaries from simple-bin in simple-bin-image

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Thu Feb 13 14:54:03 CET 2025


Hi Quentin,

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 at 03:29, Quentin Schulz <foss+uboot at 0leil.net> wrote:
>
> This gets rid of u-boot.rom generation as that was used only on Rockchip
> Chromebooks and their maintainer (Simon) seems to agree[1] that
> u-boot-rockchip-spi.bin should do the job now so we don't need to
> generate it anymore. This was agreed for RK3399 Chromebooks, I'm
> attempting to do the same for RK3288 Chromebooks as well so we don't
> have anything requiring that u-boot.rom anymore.
>
> Since HAS_ROM is only guarding this u-boot.rom generation, they are
> removed too from the individual configs.
>
> Finally, this also fixes an issue reported by Naoki[2] where binman
> would try to find symbols from proper to install in xPL binary only for
> it to not find it as we do not generate (on Aarch64) the proper binary
> in simple-bin-spi image node, only in simple-bin, so it cannot have
> access to the symbol. As to why this triggered only when some seemingly
> unrelated symbols are enabled, I do not know.
>
> The first two commits are cleanups. If they are controversial, they can
> be dropped and I'll apply the same fixes for rockchip-u-boot.dtsi to
> {rk3288,rk3399}-u-boot.dtsi binman nodes.
>
> Note that none of the patches were tested outside of a simple build
> test.

Are you able to run them through my lab?

>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/CAFLszTh-SewFod8dEOF3+e-wCE1qFF0CyxxR8CbQwy3BRW3k6w@mail.gmail.com
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20250129132529.807031-3-naoki@radxa.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at cherry.de>
> ---
> Quentin Schulz (3):
>       rockchip: rk3399: do not generate u-boot.rom anymore
>       rockchip: rk3288: do not generate u-boot.rom anymore
>       rockchip: avoid rebuilding most binaries for u-boot-rockchip-spi.bin
>
>  arch/arm/dts/rk3288-u-boot.dtsi       | 24 ------------------------
>  arch/arm/dts/rk3399-u-boot.dtsi       | 35 -----------------------------------
>  arch/arm/dts/rockchip-u-boot.dtsi     | 10 ++++++++++
>  arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3288/Kconfig |  5 -----
>  arch/arm/mach-rockchip/rk3399/Kconfig |  2 --
>  5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 636fcc96c3d7e2b00c843e6da78ed3e9e3bdf4de
> change-id: 20250211-has_rom-u-boot-rockchip-spi-bin-df31b06ad2f3
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz at cherry.de>
>

Regards,
Simon


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