linux-kernel - [PATCH v6 0/2] arm64: Add a build target for Flat Image Tree

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Message-ID: <20231119150229.634424-1-sjg@chromium.org>
Date:   Sun, 19 Nov 2023 08:01:13 -0700
From:   Simon Glass <sjg@...omium.org>
To:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@...ts.denx.de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Tom Rini <trini@...sulko.com>, Simon Glass <sjg@...omium.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>,
        Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 0/2] arm64: Add a build target for Flat Image Tree

Flat Image Tree (FIT) is a widely used file format for packaging a
kernel and associated devicetree files[1]. It is not specific to any
one bootloader, as it is supported by U-Boot, coreboot, Linuxboot,
Tianocore and Barebox.

This series adds support for building a FIT as part of the kernel
build. This makes it easy to try out the kernel - just load the FIT
onto your tftp server and it will run automatically on any supported
arm64 board.

The script is written in Python, since it is easy to build a FIT using
the Python libfdt bindings. For now, no attempt is made to compress
files in parallel, so building the 900-odd files takes a while, about
6 seconds with my testing.

The series also includes a few minor clean-up patches.

[1] https://github.com/open-source-firmware/flat-image-tree

Changes in v6:
- Drop the unwanted .gz suffix

Changes in v5:
- Drop patch previously applied
- Correct compression rule which was broken in v4

Changes in v4:
- Use single quotes for UIMAGE_NAME

Changes in v3:
- Drop temporary file image.itk
- Drop patch 'Use double quotes for image name'
- Drop double quotes in use of UIMAGE_NAME
- Drop unnecessary CONFIG_EFI_ZBOOT condition for help
- Avoid hard-coding "arm64" for the DT architecture

Changes in v2:
- Drop patch previously applied
- Add .gitignore file
- Move fit rule to Makefile.lib using an intermediate file
- Drop dependency on CONFIG_EFI_ZBOOT
- Pick up .dtb files separately from the kernel
- Correct pylint too-many-args warning for write_kernel()
- Include the kernel image in the file count
- Add a pointer to the FIT spec and mention of its wide industry usage
- Mention the kernel version in the FIT description

Simon Glass (2):
  kbuild: arm64: Add BOOT_TARGETS variable
  arm64: boot: Support Flat Image Tree

 MAINTAINERS                |   7 +
 arch/arm64/Makefile        |   7 +-
 arch/arm64/boot/.gitignore |   1 +
 arch/arm64/boot/Makefile   |   6 +-
 scripts/Makefile.lib       |  13 ++
 scripts/make_fit.py        | 289 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 6 files changed, 321 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 scripts/make_fit.py

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