On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 7:41 AM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > +Masahiro > > (use get_maintainers.pl in the future) > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 5:01 AM TIAN Yuanhao <tianyuanhao3@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > At present Linux always builds dtc if CONFIG_DTC is defined, even when > > DTC is provided. The built dtc is not actually used, so this is a waste > > of time. > > That's kind of a edge usecase, so I'm not sure it is worth the > complexity. Indeed. Not worth the complexity. Overriding DTC is not a general use. It is a knob so that someone can test the latest dtc from upstream. > We could also just make CONFIG_DTC visible so it can be > disabled. Or make it a path defaulting to the built-in one. Maybe > Masahiro has some ideas. Let's not do anything. This patch is NACK. > > > Update the Makefile logic to build dtc and fdtoverlay only if DTC or > > FDTOVERLAY is not provided. > > Overriding fdtoverlay is not even supported currently. Adding support > for that should be a separate patch. > > > Also, add an fdtoverlay wrapper to hide the actual path differences of > > fdtoverlay from the make_fit.py script. > > That's ugly. > > Rob -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
