From: "Rob Herring (Arm)" <robh@kernel.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>,
Saravana Kannan <saravanak@kernel.org>
Cc: David Heidelberg <david@ixit.cz>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] kbuild: Support directory targets for building DTBs
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:49:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261016-dtb-dirs-v3-v4-2-0ec42fd8ef9b@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261016-dtb-dirs-v3-v4-0-0ec42fd8ef9b@kernel.org>
It is useful to be able to build all the DTBs for a vendor. One can list
all the .dts files in a directory and convert those to %.dtb targets,
but that doesn't work for base+overlay DTB targets.
The 'dtbs' and 'dtbs_check' targets can use the directory rule targets
as well which avoids different make paths for building DTBs.
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
---
v4:
- Don't create a dtbs-list file in every directory
v3:
- Reworked on top of single target rule for %.dtb
- Make dtbs target use directory rule.
- Move adding boot/dts subdir out of the arch code. Now supported on
every arch (not that useful without vendor dirs).
- Removed the need to look at MAKECMDGOALS
- Fixed unnecessary rebuilding DT base+overlay targets
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251120204812.1983452-4-robh@kernel.org/
v2:
- Convert arm, mips and riscv. The other DT enabled arches don't have
vendor directories.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251113225952.867138-1-robh@kernel.org/
---
Makefile | 14 ++++++++++----
drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile | 5 +++++
scripts/Makefile.build | 7 +++++++
scripts/Makefile.dtbs | 2 ++
4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c307ee9293bc..6d1d1c803ee8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1664,8 +1664,8 @@ dtbindingtree := Documentation/devicetree/bindings
ifneq ($(dtstree),)
PHONY += dtbs dtbs_prepare dtbs_install dtbs_check
-dtbs: dtbs_prepare
- $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$(dtstree) need-dtbslist=1
+dtbs:
+ $(Q)$(MAKE) $(dtstree)/
# include/config/kernel.release is actually needed when installing DTBs because
# INSTALL_DTBS_PATH contains $(KERNELRELEASE). However, we do not want to make
@@ -2185,6 +2185,7 @@ modpost: $(if $(single-build),, $(if $(KBUILD_BUILTIN), vmlinux.o)) \
# make foo/bar/baz/
single-build-prep := prepare
+single-dtbslist-arg :=
ifdef single-build
@@ -2216,9 +2217,13 @@ single-goals := $(addprefix $(build-dir)/, $(single-no-ko))
# DT-only targets need host tools, but no architecture-specific preparation.
ifneq ($(dtstree),)
-single-dt-patterns := $(addprefix $(dtstree)/,%.dtb %.dtbo)
+single-dt-patterns := $(dtstree)/ $(addprefix $(dtstree)/,%.dtb %.dtbo %/)
+ifneq ($(filter $(single-dt-patterns),$(single-no-ko)),)
+single-dtbslist-arg := need-dtbslist=1
+endif
ifeq ($(filter-out $(single-dt-patterns),$(single-no-ko)),)
single-build-prep := dtbs_prepare
+single-dtbslist-arg := need-dtbslist=1
endif
endif
@@ -2234,7 +2239,8 @@ prepare: outputmakefile
# Error messages still appears in the original language
PHONY += $(build-dir)
$(build-dir): $(single-build-prep)
- $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$@ need-builtin=1 need-modorder=1 $(single-goals)
+ $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=$@ need-builtin=1 need-modorder=1 \
+ $(single-dtbslist-arg) $(single-goals)
clean-dirs := $(addprefix _clean_, $(clean-dirs))
PHONY += $(clean-dirs) clean
diff --git a/drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile b/drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile
index 01a966e39f23..bac6ee9327e2 100644
--- a/drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/of/unittest-data/Makefile
@@ -104,3 +104,8 @@ static_test_1-dtbs := static_base_1.dtb $(apply_static_overlay_1)
static_test_2-dtbs := static_base_2.dtb $(apply_static_overlay_2)
dtb-$(CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY) += static_test_1.dtb static_test_2.dtb
+
+# Include the static overlay tests in normal kernel builds.
+ifdef CONFIG_OF_OVERLAY
+need-dtbslist := 1
+endif
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 4349108e75e1..d22b3b2d43b3 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ include $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.compiler
include $(kbuild-file)
include $(srctree)/scripts/Makefile.lib
+# Make DT directory targets reachable for architectures with a DTS tree.
+ifeq ($(obj),arch/$(SRCARCH))
+ifneq ($(wildcard $(src)/boot/dts/),)
+subdir-y += boot/dts
+endif
+endif
+
# flags that take effect in current and sub directories
KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(subdir-asflags-y)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(subdir-ccflags-y)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.dtbs b/scripts/Makefile.dtbs
index c4e466390284..c7ec2a2a308e 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.dtbs
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.dtbs
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ dtb-y := $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(dtb-y))
multi-dtb-y := $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(multi-dtb-y))
real-dtb-y := $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(real-dtb-y))
+ifdef need-dtbslist
always-y += $(dtb-y)
+endif
targets += $(real-dtb-y)
# dtbs-list
--
2.53.0
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2026-10-16 19:49 [PATCH v4 0/2] kbuild: Support directory targets for DTBs Rob Herring (Arm)
2026-10-16 19:49 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] kbuild: Convert %.dtb(o) targets to single target rules Rob Herring (Arm)
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