[PATCH v5 0/8] scripts/make_fit: Support ramdisks and faster operations

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Nov 14 06:27:26 PST 2025


This series updates 'make image.fit' to support adding a ramdisk to the
FIT, either one provided as a parameter or one created from all the
kernel modules.

It also includes a few performance improvement, so that building a FIT
from ~450MB of kernel/module/devicetree files only takes a few seconds
on a modern machine.

Changes in v5:
- Fix 'use' typo
- Add a new patch to split out module targets into a variable
- Build modules automatically if needed (fix from Nicolas Schier)

Changes in v4:
- Update the commit message
- Provide the list of modules from the Makefile
- Reduce verbosity (don't print every module filename)
- Rename the Makefile variable from 'EXTRA' to 'MAKE_FIT_FLAGS'
- Use an empty FIT_MODULES to disable the feature, instead of '0'
- Make use of the 'modules' dependency to ensure modules are built
- Pass the list of modules to the script

Changes in v3:
- Move the ramdisk chunk into the correct patch
- Add a comment at the top of the file about the -r option
- Count the ramdisk in the total files
- Update the commit message
- Add a way to add built modules into the FIT

Changes in v2:
- Don't compress the ramdisk as it is already compressed

Simon Glass (8):
  scripts/make_fit: Speed up operation
  scripts/make_fit: Support an initial ramdisk
  scripts/make_fit: Move dtb processing into a function
  scripts/make_fit: Provide a way to add built modules
  kbuild: Split out module targets into a variable
  kbuild: Allow adding modules into the FIT ramdisk
  scripts/make_fit: Support a few more parallel compressors
  scripts/make_fit: Compress dtbs in parallel

 Makefile             |   8 +-
 arch/arm64/Makefile  |   1 +
 scripts/Makefile.lib |  10 +-
 scripts/make_fit.py  | 264 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 4 files changed, 243 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

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2.43.0

base-commit: 4a71531471926e3c391665ee9c42f4e0295a4585
branch: fita5



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