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* [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/2] rockchip: make_fit_atf.py Eliminate pyelftools dependency
@ 2019-07-16 19:51 Chris Webb
  2019-07-16 19:52 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/2] rockchip: make_fit_atf.py: " Chris Webb
  2019-07-16 19:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/2] rockchip: Remove obsolete references to pyelftools Chris Webb
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Chris Webb @ 2019-07-16 19:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: u-boot

Building for rockchip, make_fit_atf.py depends on pyelftools, a non-bundled
python module that is not used elsewhere in building u-boot or the kernel.

We only use pyelftools to pull out PT_LOAD segments. ELF is very simple, so
doing this manually is easy and spares users the extra dependency. In fact,
a straightforward implementation shrinks make_fit_aft.py rather than adding
complexity.

Andy Yan's patch

  https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/custodians/u-boot-rockchip/commit/619f002db864ef8caa30863bde62df5c651a7312

is a prerequisite for this. The new code does not erroneously count
GNU_STACK sections and therefore without the above patch, the loadables in
the conf section will always be one short, even where GNU_STACK is present.

I have tested this script with python 2 and 3 against all bl31 elf files at

  https://github.com/rockchip-linux/rkbin/tree/master/bin/rk33

as well as an rk3399 bl31.elf built locally from the master branch of

  https://github.com/ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware

to which my toolchain added the extra GNU_STACK segment.

In each case, identical *.bin files were produced compared to the pyelftools
implementation, and a correct .its configuration (without off-by-one error)
was emitted, with and without dtbs supplied to the script.

Changes in v2:
  - no exception on a valid but completely empty bl31 ELF file
  - restrict documentation updates to the Rockchip docs (!)

Changes in v3:
  - code style: add correct whitespace around multiply operator

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2019-07-16 19:51 [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/2] rockchip: make_fit_atf.py Eliminate pyelftools dependency Chris Webb
2019-07-16 19:52 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/2] rockchip: make_fit_atf.py: " Chris Webb
2019-07-17  1:08   ` Andy Yan
2019-07-17 10:47   ` Kever Yang
2019-07-23  8:04     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 1/2] rockchip: make_fit_atf.py: Eliminate pyelftools dependency【请注意,邮件由u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de代发】 Kever Yang
2019-07-16 19:53 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/2] rockchip: Remove obsolete references to pyelftools Chris Webb
2019-07-17 10:39   ` Kever Yang
2019-07-23  8:04     ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3 2/2] rockchip: Remove obsolete references to pyelftools【请注意,邮件由u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de代发】 pyelftools Kever Yang

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