Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/4] Add device tree build information

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi Alexandre,

On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 01:55:55PM +0100, Alexandre Torgue wrote:
>On 2/28/20 6:47 PM, Frank Rowand wrote:
>> > This would require modifying every single main .dts file to get the build info
>> > I would prefer the method that Ian and David came up with (sorry, no lore link,
>> > it did not go to lkml).  Extract from David's email:
>> > 
>> >     Date:   Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:05:25 +1100
>> >     From:   David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >     Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] dtc: Add dtb build information option
>> > 
>> >     > Given that dts files are run through the C preprocessor before being
>> >     > fed to dtc, the build script could use the '-include' flag to force-
>> >     > include a fragment containing generated build info without any need to
>> >     > modify existing dts files.
>> > 
>> >     Uh... maybe.  -include will essentially prepend the forced file, which
>> >     is a bit awkward for our purposes.  It means that the prepended file
>> >     would need the /dts-v1/ tag, and we couldn't have it in the main files
>> >     which would be a bit confusing.  I think it would also cause problems
>> >     with any /memreserve/ tags and means that the main tree could in
>> >     theory overwrite the build information which we don't necessarily
>> >     want.
>> > 
>> >     I guess we could build things the other way around: have the main .dts
>> >     file specified with -include and have the dts on the dtc commandline
>> >     be a fixed one with the build information.  It'd be a little weird,
>> >     though.
>> > 
>> > -Frank
>
>Yes. I try briefly this idea but I got issues with dts-v1 tag. I agree, it is
>cleaner to not modify input dts file. I can rework int this way.

Have you made any progress on this please?

Cheers,
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