On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:07 PM Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (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." > --- > 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
