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

From: Alexandre Torgue
Date: Tue Mar 31 2020 - 11:01:46 EST


Hi Steeve

On 3/31/20 3:03 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
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?

Unfortunately no. I cook something locally but not yet upstream-able.
Due to project issue I didn't find time to work on it. I think (I hope) to be less busy next week and so I'll restart it.

regards
alex


Cheers,