[PATCH] arm: ensure the build doesn't fail when kwbimage lacks the binary blob

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Sun May 12 07:41:16 EDT 2013


Hi Thomas,

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:35:53PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> mach-mvebu images for Armada 370 and Armada XP SoC require a DDR3
> training code which should be extracted from existing bootable images
> for the relevant board. When such binary blob has not been extracted,
> the build of the .kwb and .kwbuart images will fail. This is annoying
> as it makes the build of all Armada 370/XP defconfig fail, which can
> be a problem for automated builds.
> 
> This proposal makes the failure of kwbimage not a fatal failure for
> the build process, and shows a warning. The user therefore sees:
> 
> ====================================================================
>   KWB     barebox.kwb
> Didn't find the file 'plathome-openblocks-ax3-binary.0' in '/home/thomas/projets/barebox' which is mandatory to generate the image
> This file generally contains the DDR3 training code, and should be extracted from an existing bootable
> image for your board. See 'kwbimage -x' to extract it from an existing image.
> Could not create image
> WARNING: Couldn't create KWB image due to previous errors.
>   KWBUART barebox.kwbuart
> Didn't find the file 'plathome-openblocks-ax3-binary.0' in '/home/thomas/projets/barebox' which is mandatory to generate the image
> This file generally contains the DDR3 training code, and should be extracted from an existing bootable
> image for your board. See 'kwbimage -x' to extract it from an existing image.
> Could not create image
> WARNING Couldn't create KWB image due to previous errors.
> ====================================================================
> 
> The only drawback is that barebox-flash-image, which normally points
> to barebox.kwb, becomes a state symbolic link.

stale?

baruch

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/Makefile |    6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
> index ce0921d..af8294d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
> @@ -270,10 +270,12 @@ KWBIMAGE_OPTS = \
>  	-c -i $(srctree)/$(BOARD)/kwbimage.cfg -d $(TEXT_BASE) -e $(TEXT_BASE)
>  
>  quiet_cmd_kwbimage = KWB     $@
> -      cmd_kwbimage = scripts/kwbimage -p $< $(KWBIMAGE_OPTS) -o $@
> +      cmd_kwbimage = scripts/kwbimage -p $< $(KWBIMAGE_OPTS) -o $@ || \
> +	echo "WARNING: Couldn't create KWB image due to previous errors."
>  
>  quiet_cmd_kwbimage_uart = KWBUART $@
> -      cmd_kwbimage_uart = scripts/kwbimage -m uart -p $< $(KWBIMAGE_OPTS) -o $@
> +      cmd_kwbimage_uart = scripts/kwbimage -m uart -p $< $(KWBIMAGE_OPTS) -o $@ || \
> +	echo "WARNING Couldn't create KWB image due to previous errors."
>  
>  barebox.kwb: $(KBUILD_BINARY) FORCE
>  	$(call if_changed,kwbimage)
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5

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