Hi Stefano,
Am Di., 23. Nov. 2021 um 16:44 Uhr schrieb Stefano Babic sbabic@denx.de:
On 23.11.21 16:29, Tom Rini wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:47:10AM +0100, Heiko Thiery wrote:
While converting to binman for an imx8mq board, it has been found that building in the u-boot CI fails. This is because an imx8mq requires an external binary (signed_hdmi_imx8m.bin). If this file cannot be found mkimage fails. To be able to build this board in the u-boot CI a binman option (--fake-ext-blobs) is introduced that can be switched on via the u-boot makefile option BINMAN_FAKE_EXT_BLOBS. With that the needed dummy files are created.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Thiery heiko.thiery@gmail.com
Makefile | 1 + tools/binman/cmdline.py | 2 ++ tools/binman/control.py | 16 ++++++++++++++++ tools/binman/entry.py | 1 + tools/binman/etype/blob_ext.py | 1 + 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
Since this ends up being a problem for a number of boards, does anyone have comments on this? At first glance, this seems reasonable to me, and a follow-up making CI make use of this would be handy to finish evaluating.
It looks reasonable for me and it is not different as we did before binman reporting warnings that the binary does not work. Fine if thsi can be merged, I will unblock some i.MX boards (Heiko's for example) that I cannot currently merge due to CI failures.
Before you add my patch for the imx8mq board we need to make a change in buildman to make the binman flag option "--fake-ext-blobs" usable. I haven't done that yet, because I wanted to wait if this patch will be accepted.