On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:28 PM Frank Rowand <frowand.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Viresh, > > I made these comments in the v2 patch series. I am copying them here since > this is the current version. > > On 1/12/21 2:29 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > We will start building overlays for platforms soon in the kernel and > > would need fdtoverlay going forward. Lets start building it. > > > > The fdtoverlay program applies (or merges) one ore more overlay dtb > > blobs to a base dtb blob. The kernel build system would later use > > fdtoverlay to generate the overlaid blobs based on platform specific > > configurations. > > > > Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.ku...@linaro.org> > > --- > > scripts/dtc/Makefile | 6 +++++- > > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/scripts/dtc/Makefile b/scripts/dtc/Makefile > > index 4852bf44e913..5f19386a49eb 100644 > > --- a/scripts/dtc/Makefile > > +++ b/scripts/dtc/Makefile > > @@ -1,13 +1,17 @@ > > # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 > > # scripts/dtc makefile > > > > -hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_DTC) += dtc > > +hostprogs-always-$(CONFIG_DTC) += dtc fdtoverlay > > hostprogs-always-$(CHECK_DT_BINDING) += dtc > > > > dtc-objs := dtc.o flattree.o fstree.o data.o livetree.o treesource.o \ > > srcpos.o checks.o util.o > > dtc-objs += dtc-lexer.lex.o dtc-parser.tab.o > > > > # The upstream project builds libfdt as a separate library. We are choosing > to > # instead directly link the libfdt object files into fdtoverly > > > +libfdt-objs := fdt.o fdt_ro.o fdt_wip.o fdt_sw.o fdt_rw.o fdt_strerror.o > > fdt_empty_tree.o fdt_addresses.o fdt_overlay.o > > +libfdt = $(addprefix libfdt/,$(libfdt-objs)) > > +fdtoverlay-objs := $(libfdt) fdtoverlay.o util.o > > + > > # Source files need to get at the userspace version of libfdt_env.h to > > compile > > HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I $(srctree)/$(src)/libfdt > > > > > > In general, I am a proponent of using shared libraries (which the upstream > project > builds by default) because if a security bug in the library is fixed, it is > fixed > for all users of the library. > > In this specific case, I actually prefer the implementation that the patch > provides > (directly linking the library object files into fdtoverlay, which uses the > library) > because it is the only user of the library _and_ fdtoverlay will not > inadvertently > use the system wide libfdt if it happens to be installed (as it is on my > system). > > Any thoughts on this Rob?
I agree. No point in complicating the build to do a library. Rob
