imx-base.inc: avoid explicit imx-boot dependency

We shouldn't force `imx-boot` dependency for i.MX8 SoCs as many can use
U-Boot mainline and those use `imx-boot-container` to generate the
binary blob.

We moved the backward-compatibility note, about 'imx-boot' to the
'imx-boot-container' class.

Signed-off-by: Otavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/classes/imx-boot-container.bbclass b/classes/imx-boot-container.bbclass
index 711bbd9e5..a420b4c4b 100644
--- a/classes/imx-boot-container.bbclass
+++ b/classes/imx-boot-container.bbclass
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 # by variable UBOOT_PROVIDES_BOOT_CONTAINER, which is defined in the
 # base machine include file (imx-base.inc), and is set to "1" when the
 # 'imx-boot-container' is present in MACHINEOVERRIDES.
+#
+# NOTE: A backwards-compatible symlink is added for 'flash.bin', named
+# 'imx-boot', during the deployment task.
 
 # Define ATF binary file to be deployed to the U-Boot build folder
 ATF_MACHINE_NAME = "bl31-${ATF_PLATFORM}.bin"
diff --git a/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc b/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc
index e24e14e12..43e78282c 100644
--- a/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc
+++ b/conf/machine/include/imx-base.inc
@@ -503,22 +503,18 @@ WKS_FILE_DEPENDS ?= " \
     ${@bb.utils.contains('MACHINE_FEATURES', 'optee', '${OPTEE_WKS_FILE_DEPENDS}', '', d)} \
 "
 
-WKS_FILE_DEPENDS:append:mx8-nxp-bsp  = " imx-boot"
-WKS_FILE_DEPENDS:append:mx8m-nxp-bsp = " imx-boot"
-
 # We need to restrict the append so we don't add this for other i.MX SoC's.
 # Derivatives that are not yet adopted the usage of boot container provided
 # by U-Boot build are still targeted to use 'imx-boot' package provided by
-# NXP. Moving those derivatives to mainline BSP would require to define an
+# NXP.
+#
+# Moving those derivatives to mainline BSP would require to define an
 # 'imx-boot-container' override, and test if the U-Boot built 'flash.bin'
 # binary is used a replacement.
-# Note, that the results binary name of the boot container is set to 'imx-boot'
+#
+# NOTE: the results binary name of the boot container is set to 'imx-boot'
 # for both NXP and Mainline BSP.
-# For Mainline BSP: the 'flash.bin' boot container is renamed during the
-# deployment task extesion execution defined in imx-boot-container class.
-# For NXP BSP: rename is done in 'imx-boot' recipe at the execution of compile
-# task.
-WKS_FILE_DEPENDS:append:imx-mainline-bsp:aarch64 = " \
+WKS_FILE_DEPENDS:append:imx-generic-bsp:aarch64 = " \
     ${@oe.utils.ifelse(d.getVar('UBOOT_PROVIDES_BOOT_CONTAINER') == '0', 'imx-boot', '')} \
 "