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,