Re: [PATCH] imd: model and compatible missing in metadata

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On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:54:08PM +0000, Scherer, Thorsten wrote:
> Hallo Sascha,
> 
> On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 12:31 +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 02:18:52PM +0300, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:33:56 +0100
> > > "Thorsten K. Scherer" <t.scherer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > fixes 97e81f2
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Thorsten K. Scherer <t.scherer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  include/asm-generic/barebox.lds.h | 2 +-
> > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/barebox.lds.h b/include/asm-
> > > > generic/barebox.lds.h
> > > > index 74d3ca4a9..decaab79a 100644
> > > > --- a/include/asm-generic/barebox.lds.h
> > > > +++ b/include/asm-generic/barebox.lds.h
> > > > @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
> > > >  #define BAREBOX_IMD				\
> > > >  	KEEP(*(.barebox_imd_start))		\
> > > >  	KEEP(*(.barebox_imd_1*))		\
> > > > -	*(.barebox_imd_0*)			\
> > > > +	KEEP(*(.barebox_imd_0*))		\
> > > >  	KEEP(*(.barebox_imd_end))
> > > >  
> > > >  #if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_BAREBOX_MAX_BARE_INIT_SIZE) && \
> > > > -- 
> > > > 2.19.1
> > > 
> > > It looks like this patch has unobvious drawback.
> > > The bareboximd utility sees too many 'model' and 'compatible'
> > > strings in a single image, e.g.:
> > 
> > Now I remember what the intention was that this line looks so
> > apparently
> > different from the other ones ;)
> > 
> > To get the compatible strings into the binary I have created
> > imd_used().
> > This should be called with the symbol that should be kept in the
> > resulting image.
> > 
> > Sascha
> > 
> 
> sorry for introducing confusion.   I misread the documenation on IMD as
> "of_compatible and model will be figured out and put into the
> proper  location by barebox".  What's your opinion on adding some
> documentation for "imd_used" in (user/imd.rst)?  So I may try to
> produce a meaningful  a patch for that.

Sure, that would be appreciated.

Sascha

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