On Friday 30 December 2022 10:41:47 Tom Rini wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 04:24:43PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > On Friday 30 December 2022 10:21:04 Tom Rini wrote: > > > > In this case it would be better to build u-boot-dts.bin only by binman > > > > (for all platforms) instead of cat-ing rules in Makefile. > > > > > > This would also be an easier path forward perhaps for making sure that > > > the dtb is always 8 byte aligned? > > > > Well, no. With DTB the problem is that it is not put to the correct > > offset as can be specified in linker script. So moving this code from > > Makefile to binman also moves this problem to another location. > > 8 byte alignment is just subset of the "correct offset" problem. > > Right, the high level answer is binman is intended to be the tool to > assemble binaries, and has to deal with "make sure binary X is at offset > Y, which also has a linker symbol for run-time references".
Ok, if this tool has access to ELF/linker symbols (or will have in future in case it does not have yet) then this problem could be solved here.
