[PATCH] arm64: dts: imx8m: Reinstate TEE ifdeffery

Peng Fan peng.fan at oss.nxp.com
Wed Jul 1 09:33:57 CEST 2026


On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 06:08:56PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>Since b57ed147939c ("dts: imx8m{m,n,p,q}: Make optee packaging optional")
>the TEE node is always present in U-Boot proper fitImage, even if the
>CONFIG_OPTEE is disabled because the u-boot.itb should not contain any
>tee.bin. This is wasteful, and produces the following warning which is
>also confusing to users:
>
>"
>Image 'image' is missing optional external blobs but is still functional: tee-os
>
>/binman/section/fit/images/tee/tee-os (tee.bin):
>   See the documentation for your board. You may need to build Open Portable
>   Trusted Execution Environment (OP-TEE) and build with TEE=/path/to/tee.bin
>"
>
>Reinstate the CONFIG_OPTEE ifdeffery to mitigate the problem, but retain the
>binman "optional" keyword at tee.bin .
>
>Before:
>"
>$ mkimage -l u-boot.itb
>FIT description: Configuration to load ATF before U-Boot
>Created:         Tue Jun 30 17:23:54 2026
> Image 0 (uboot)
>...
> Image 2 (tee) <------------------------------ bogus empty image entry
>  Description:  OP-TEE                                 |
>  Created:      Tue Jun 30 17:23:54 2026               |
>  Type:         Trusted Execution Environment Image    |
>  Compression:  uncompressed                           |
>  Data Size:    0 Bytes = 0.00 KiB = 0.00 MiB <--------'
> Image 3 (fdt-1)
>...
>"
>
>After:
>"
>$ mkimage -l u-boot.itb
>FIT description: Configuration to load ATF before U-Boot
>Created:         Tue Jun 30 17:58:15 2026
> Image 0 (uboot)
>...
> Image 1 (atf)
>...
> Image 2 (fdt-1)
>...
>"
>
>Fixes: b57ed147939c ("dts: imx8m{m,n,p,q}: Make optee packaging optional")
>Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at nabladev.com>


Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>


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