[PATCH 01/21] pbl: add provision for architectures without piggy loader

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Thu Jun 5 04:35:10 PDT 2025


In preparation for enabling PBL support on sandbox, allow sandbox to
link directly PBL with barebox proper without requiring PBL to use mmap
to change attributes.

Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
 images/Makefile | 11 +++++++----
 pbl/Kconfig     |  8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/images/Makefile b/images/Makefile
index 6daaee8b7c7e..91123ada4744 100644
--- a/images/Makefile
+++ b/images/Makefile
@@ -56,21 +56,24 @@ extra-y += $(pbl-lds)
 $(pbl-lds): $(obj)/../arch/$(SRCARCH)/lib/pbl.lds.S FORCE
 	$(call if_changed_dep,cpp_lds_S)
 
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_PBL_IMAGE_NO_PIGGY),)
+BAREBOX_PIGGY_OBJS = $(obj)/piggy.o $(obj)/sha_sum.o
+endif
+
 quiet_cmd_elf__ ?= LD      $@
       cmd_elf__ ?= $(LD) $(LDFLAGS_$(patsubst .%,%,$(suffix $(@F)))) 	\
 		-e $(2) -Map $@.map $(LDFLAGS_$(@F)) -o $@		\
 		--gc-sections --defsym=__pbl_board_entry=$(2)  		\
 		-T $(pbl-lds)						\
-		--whole-archive $(BAREBOX_PBL_OBJS) $(obj)/piggy.o	\
-		$(obj)/sha_sum.o
+		--whole-archive $(BAREBOX_PBL_OBJS) $(BAREBOX_PIGGY_OBJS) \
 
 PBL_CPPFLAGS	+= -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections
 
-$(obj)/%.pbl: $(pbl-lds) $(BAREBOX_PBL_OBJS) $(obj)/piggy.o $(obj)/sha_sum.o FORCE
+$(obj)/%.pbl: $(pbl-lds) $(BAREBOX_PBL_OBJS) $(BAREBOX_PIGGY_OBJS) FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,elf__,$(*F))
 	$(call if_changed,prelink__)
 
-$(obj)/%.elf: $(pbl-lds) $(BAREBOX_PBL_OBJS) $(obj)/piggy.o $(obj)/sha_sum.o FORCE
+$(obj)/%.elf: $(pbl-lds) $(BAREBOX_PBL_OBJS) $(BAREBOX_PIGGY_OBJS) FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,elf__,$(*F))
 	$(call if_changed,prelink__)
 
diff --git a/pbl/Kconfig b/pbl/Kconfig
index 6e3581829d58..e9fa35e29b19 100644
--- a/pbl/Kconfig
+++ b/pbl/Kconfig
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ config PBL_IMAGE
 	bool "Pre-Bootloader image"
 	depends on HAVE_PBL_IMAGE
 
+config PBL_IMAGE_NO_PIGGY
+	bool
+	depends on PBL_IMAGE
+	help
+	  This is a special case for architectures that don't
+	  want to use the piggy mechanism to load barebox proper.
+	  It's so far only intended for sandbox.
+
 config PBL_MULTI_IMAGES
 	bool
 	select PBL_IMAGE
-- 
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