[PATCH 9/9] Makefile: Show binman missing blob message

Jonas Karlman
2023-02-19T22:04:06Z

When binman is invoked during a build of U-Boot and an external blob is
missing, the user is usually presented with a generic file not found in
input path message.

Invoke binman with --allow-missing so that binman can show relevant
missing blob help messages. Build continue to fail with missing blobs
unless BINMAN_ALLOW_MISSING=1 is used.

This changes the following error message:

binman: Filename 'atf-bl31' not found in input path (...)

to the following:

Image 'itb' is missing external blobs and is non-functional: atf-blob

/binman/itb/fit/images/atf/atf-blob (bl31.bin):
See the documentation for your board. You may need to build ARM Trusted
Firmware and build with BL31=/path/to/bl31.bin

Signed-off-by: Jonas Karlman <jonas@kwiboo.se>
---
Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 58f8c7a35335..c2860824f6f2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ cmd_binman = $(srctree)/tools/binman/binman $(if $(BINMAN_DEBUG),-D) \
--toolpath $(objtree)/tools \
$(if $(BINMAN_VERBOSE),-v$(BINMAN_VERBOSE)) \
build -u -d u-boot.dtb -O . -m \
- $(if $(BINMAN_ALLOW_MISSING),--allow-missing --ignore-missing) \
+ --allow-missing $(if $(BINMAN_ALLOW_MISSING),--ignore-missing) \
-I . -I $(srctree) -I $(srctree)/board/$(BOARDDIR) \
-I arch/$(ARCH)/dts -a of-list=$(CONFIG_OF_LIST) \
$(foreach f,$(BINMAN_INDIRS),-I $(f)) \
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