[OE-core] [meta-oe][PATCH RESEND] devicetree.bbclass: don't pad DT overlays

Nathan Rossi nathan at nathanrossi.com
Tue Sep 11 11:34:35 UTC 2018


On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 21:14, <lucaceresoli77 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>
>
> By default the devicetree class adds padding to the generated .dtb
> files, which can be needed by the bootloader. However it also pads
> .dtbo files, which is not useful.
>
> Don't apply padding to the overlay devicetrees.
>
> To achieve this:
>
>  * move "-p ${DT_PADDING_SIZE}" to a new variable, DTB_BFLAGS (B for
>    "base")
>  * add "-p 0" to DTC_OFLAGS to disable padding for overlays
>
> Cc: Nathan Rossi <nathan at nathanrossi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca at lucaceresoli.net>

You shouldn't put "[meta-oe]" in the subject for oe-core/meta patches.
But otherwise the change looks good.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Rossi <nathan at nathanrossi.com>

Regards,
Nathan

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>
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> ---
>  meta/classes/devicetree.bbclass | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/classes/devicetree.bbclass b/meta/classes/devicetree.bbclass
> index dbc83f2a1d98..8fe5a5ed795c 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/devicetree.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/devicetree.bbclass
> @@ -55,9 +55,10 @@ DT_RESERVED_MAP ??= "8"
>  DT_BOOT_CPU[doc] = "The boot cpu, defaults to 0"
>  DT_BOOT_CPU ??= "0"
>
> -DTC_FLAGS ?= "-R ${DT_RESERVED_MAP} -p ${DT_PADDING_SIZE} -b ${DT_BOOT_CPU}"
> +DTC_FLAGS ?= "-R ${DT_RESERVED_MAP} -b ${DT_BOOT_CPU}"
>  DTC_PPFLAGS ?= "-nostdinc -undef -D__DTS__ -x assembler-with-cpp"
> -DTC_OFLAGS ?= "-@ -H epapr"
> +DTC_BFLAGS ?= "-p ${DT_PADDING_SIZE}"
> +DTC_OFLAGS ?= "-p 0 -@ -H epapr"
>
>  python () {
>      if d.getVar("KERNEL_INCLUDE"):
> @@ -106,6 +107,8 @@ def devicetree_compile(dtspath, includes, d):
>      dtcargs = ["dtc"] + (d.getVar("DTC_FLAGS") or "").split()
>      if isoverlay:
>          dtcargs += (d.getVar("DTC_OFLAGS") or "").split()
> +    else:
> +        dtcargs += (d.getVar("DTC_BFLAGS") or "").split()
>      for i in includes:
>          dtcargs += ["-i", i]
>      dtcargs += ["-o", "{0}.{1}".format(dtname, "dtbo" if isoverlay else "dtb")]
> --
> 2.17.1
>



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