Re: [ptxdist] Best practice integrating firmwares in U-Boot builds

[Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>]

Hi Felix,

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 05:22:41PM +0200, Felix Mellmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when I tried to set up a PTXdist environment for a NXP i.MX8MP based board
> (Phytec phyBoard Pollux) I stumbled across the need to provide firmware
> images during the U-Boot build process (LPDDR4 training data and TF-A BL31
> firmware).
> 
> Is there a best practice on how to provide those firmwares during build?
> Currently I helped myself and modified u-boot.make to copy the firmware
> files at the very beginning of the compile stage to the build directory...

See here:
https://lore.ptxdist.org/ptxdist/20220129070330.2601433-1-michael.riesch@wolfvision.net/

These patches solve the problem for the Rockchip TF-A binary blobs
integrated into barebox. The helper introduced there is generic and
the solution could look similar for U-Boot I guess.

Sascha

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