Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: buildtar: add arm64 dtbs support

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Sat Jun 27 2020 - 23:47:40 EST


On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 6:21 AM Domenico Andreoli
<domenico.andreoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 09:02:52PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 6:40 AM Domenico Andreoli <domenico.andreoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:16:58PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 5:51 AM Domenico Andreoli <domenico.andreoli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > > >
> > > > > + arm64)
> > > > > + make ARCH="${ARCH}" -f ${srctree}/Makefile INSTALL_DTBS_PATH="${tmpdir}/boot/dtbs/${KERNELRELEASE}" dtbs_install
> > > > > + ;;
> > > > > +esac
> > > > > +
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Or, you can use INSTALL_PATH="${tmpdir}/boot"
> > > > to make it shorter.
> > >
> > > This does not work, INSTALL_DTBS_PATH gets somehow defined along the
> > > twisted path to buildtar and therefore needs to be explicitly specified
> > > for the new destination.
> >
> > It works.
> >
> > See line 1002 of the top Makefile
> >
> > export INSTALL_DTBS_PATH ?= $(INSTALL_PATH)/dtbs/$(KERNELRELEASE)
>
> Exactly. INSTALL_DTBS_PATH is _exported_ in the top Makefile.
>
>
> This is what it seems to happen, in the order:
>
> 1. outer 'make dir-pkg'
> INSTALL_DTBS_PATH is exported with some content
>
> 2. control arrives to buildtar
> INSTALL_DTBS_PATH is there as environment variable
>
> 3. inner 'make INSTALL_PATH=${tmpdir}/boot dtbs_install'
> INSTALL_DTBS_PATH is already set, therefore it is not modified

Sorry, I was wrong.
Your analysis is definitely right.


I will apply v4.

Thanks.




>
> To make the inner invocation work, I see these two options:
>
> 1. 'make INSTALL_DTBS_PATH= INSTALL_PATH=${tmpdir}/boot dtb_install' (untested)
>
> 2. 'make INSTALL_DTBS_PATH=${tmpdir}/boot/dtbs/${KERNELRELEASE} dtbs_install'
>
> I chose 2 but I can switch to 1, if you prefer. No problem.
>
>
> Regards,
> Domenico
>
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