[PATCH v6 1/8] scripts/make_fit: Speed up operation

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Wed Nov 26 01:24:30 PST 2025



On 11/19/25 7:13 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> The kernel is likely at least 16MB so we may as well use that as a step
> size when reallocating space for the FIT in memory. Pack the FIT at the
> end, so there is no wasted space.
> 
> This reduces the time to pack by an order of magnitude, or so.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>

> ---
> 
> (no changes since v3)
> 
> Changes in v3:
> - Move the ramdisk chunk into the correct patch
> 
>  scripts/make_fit.py | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/make_fit.py b/scripts/make_fit.py
> index 1683e5ec6e67..0f5e7c4b8aed 100755
> --- a/scripts/make_fit.py
> +++ b/scripts/make_fit.py
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ def setup_fit(fsw, name):
>          fsw (libfdt.FdtSw): Object to use for writing
>          name (str): Name of kernel image
>      """
> -    fsw.INC_SIZE = 65536
> +    fsw.INC_SIZE = 16 << 20
>      fsw.finish_reservemap()
>      fsw.begin_node('')
>      fsw.property_string('description', f'{name} with devicetree set')
> @@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ def build_fit(args):
>      finish_fit(fsw, entries)
>  
>      # Include the kernel itself in the returned file count
> -    return fsw.as_fdt().as_bytearray(), seq + 1, size
> +    fdt = fsw.as_fdt()
> +    fdt.pack()
> +    return fdt.as_bytearray(), seq + 1, size
>  
>  
>  def run_make_fit():

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