On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 18:40, Andrei Warkentin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Ard,
>
> > Do we really need this patch? For development, you can put anything
> > you want here. For doing releases, I'd expect edk2-platforms to be in
> > sync with edk2-non-osi, given that there are more blobs there than
> > TF-A, right?
>
> This is a developer productivity improvement that I've found to be useful and 
> it has no impact on others for the default case of building code for release.
>
> Sure, you can copy things around and stage/unstage files, but I like 
> automating my work and I tend to track the upstream TF-A (for regressions, 
> rpi4-uefi.dev work),
> so being able to quickly generate builds both with internal and external TF-A 
> and without extra hoopla has been key. The time I avoid dealing with dirty 
> trees is time I can spend elsewhere else making Pi 4 implementation better.
>
> There aren't really any other blobs that matter for Pi 4...The embedded DTB 
> is going to go away as part of fixing the regression seen with  
> https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/issues/17 (on the Pi 4 you can't really boot 
> anyway without passing a DTB in config.txt).
>

Fair enough. I still don't quite see the point, but I don't really mind either.

Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>

Pushed as 30324eefb3a4..07cc442f7212

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