[PATCH v3 5/5] kbuild: Allow adding modules into the FIT ramdisk

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 04:48:32PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Support 'make image.fit FIT_MODULES=1' to put all the modules into a
> ramdisk image within the FIT.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Suggested-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
> ---

Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>

>  scripts/Makefile.lib | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> index 1d581ba5df66..2e880d9b4706 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
> @@ -398,9 +398,15 @@ MAKE_FIT := $(srctree)/scripts/make_fit.py
>  # Use this to override the compression algorithm
>  FIT_COMPRESSION ?= gzip
>  
> +# Set this to 1 to include an initrd with all the kernel modules
> +FIT_MODULES ?= 0
> +ifeq ($(FIT_MODULES),1)
> +EXTRA := -B $(objtree) -m

Not that I can imagine it being a big issue, it would be nice to
potentially namespace this variable, like MAKE_FIT_EXTRA or
MAKE_FIT_FLAGS?

> +endif
> +
>  quiet_cmd_fit = FIT     $@
>        cmd_fit = $(MAKE_FIT) -o $@ --arch $(UIMAGE_ARCH) --os linux \
> -		--name '$(UIMAGE_NAME)' \
> +		--name '$(UIMAGE_NAME)' $(EXTRA) \
>  		$(if $(findstring 1,$(KBUILD_VERBOSE)),-v) \
>  		$(if $(FIT_DECOMPOSE_DTBS),--decompose-dtbs) \
>  		--compress $(FIT_COMPRESSION) -k $< @$(word 2,$^)
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
> base-commit: 846bd2225ec3cfa8be046655e02b9457ed41973e
> branch: fita3