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Re: [PATCH] cmd_dtc: Enable generation of device tree symbols

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-01-25 21:55:57
Also in: linux-devicetree, linux-kbuild, lkml

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:07 PM Uwe Kleine-König [off-list ref] wrote:
Adding the -@ switch to dtc results in the binary devicetrees containing
a list of symbolic references and their paths. This is necessary to
apply device tree overlays e.g. on Raspberry Pi as described on
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/device-tree.md.

Obviously the downside of this change is an increas of the size of the
generated dtbs, for an arm out-of-tree build (multi_v7_defconfig):

        $ du -s arch/arm/boot/dts*
        101380  arch/arm/boot/dts-pre
        114308  arch/arm/boot/dts-post

so this is in average an increase of 12.8% in size.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <redacted>

(CCing DT ML.)


https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-kbuild/msg27904.html

See Rob's comment:

"We've already rejected doing that. Turning on '-@' can grow the dtb
size by a significant amount which could be problematic for some
boards."







quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 scripts/Makefile.lib | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 213677a5ed33..0683a5808f7f 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ $(obj)/%.dtb.S: $(obj)/%.dtb FORCE

 quiet_cmd_dtc = DTC     $@
 cmd_dtc = $(HOSTCC) -E $(dtc_cpp_flags) -x assembler-with-cpp -o $(dtc-tmp) $< ; \
-       $(DTC) -O $(patsubst .%,%,$(suffix $@)) -o $@ -b 0 \
+       $(DTC) -@ -O $(patsubst .%,%,$(suffix $@)) -o $@ -b 0 \
                $(addprefix -i,$(dir $<) $(DTC_INCLUDE)) $(DTC_FLAGS) \
                -d $(depfile).dtc.tmp $(dtc-tmp) ; \
        cat $(depfile).pre.tmp $(depfile).dtc.tmp > $(depfile)
--
2.29.2

--
Best Regards

Masahiro Yamada

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