[PATCH v4 5/7] kbuild: Allow adding modules into the FIT ramdisk

From: Simon Glass

Date: Mon Oct 06 2025 - 19:02:53 EST


Support 'make image.fit FIT_MODULES=1' to put all the modules into a
ramdisk image within the FIT.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes in v4:
- Rename the Makefile variable from 'EXTRA' to 'MAKE_FIT_FLAGS'
- Use an empty FIT_MODULES to disable the feature, instead of '0'
- Make use of the 'modules' dependency to ensure modules are built
- Pass the list of modules to the script

arch/arm64/boot/Makefile | 4 ++++
scripts/Makefile.lib | 10 ++++++++--
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile b/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
index b5a08333bc57..d10c85f96aea 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/Makefile
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ $(obj)/Image.zst: $(obj)/Image FORCE
$(obj)/Image.xz: $(obj)/Image FORCE
$(call if_changed,xzkern)

+ifeq ($(FIT_MODULES),1)
+.PHONY: modules
+$(obj)/image.fit: modules
+endif
$(obj)/image.fit: $(obj)/Image $(obj)/dts/dtbs-list FORCE
$(call if_changed,fit)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 1d581ba5df66..c6a3aa653035 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -398,11 +398,17 @@ MAKE_FIT := $(srctree)/scripts/make_fit.py
# Use this to override the compression algorithm
FIT_COMPRESSION ?= gzip

+# Set this to 1 to include an initrd with all the kernel modules
+FIT_MODULES ?=
+
quiet_cmd_fit = FIT $@
- cmd_fit = $(MAKE_FIT) -o $@ --arch $(UIMAGE_ARCH) --os linux \
- --name '$(UIMAGE_NAME)' \
+ cmd_fit = $(if $(FIT_MODULES), \
+ find $(objtree) -name '*.ko' > $(objtree)/.modules-list 2>/dev/null &&) \
+ $(MAKE_FIT) -o $@ --arch $(UIMAGE_ARCH) --os linux \
+ --name '$(UIMAGE_NAME)' $(MAKE_FIT_FLAGS) \
$(if $(findstring 1,$(KBUILD_VERBOSE)),-v) \
$(if $(FIT_DECOMPOSE_DTBS),--decompose-dtbs) \
+ $(if $(FIT_MODULES),--modules @$(objtree)/.modules-list) \
--compress $(FIT_COMPRESSION) -k $< @$(word 2,$^)

# XZ
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