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[1/4] arm/classes-recipe: Introduce firmware.bbclass

Message ID 20251216162311.3985918-1-peter.hoyes@arm.com
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Series [1/4] arm/classes-recipe: Introduce firmware.bbclass | expand

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Peter Hoyes Dec. 16, 2025, 4:23 p.m. UTC 
There are now a handful of firmware component recipes in meta-arm, each
of which does its own (slightly different) deployment handling.

Introduce a bbclass to standardize this, with the aim of cleaning up the
DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE. Crucially, each firmware component deploys into a
${PN} subdirectory of DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE. This has a few advantages:

 * Many Arm components have the same or similar binary names (BL1, BL2
   etc). This ensures unique naming and avoids confusion.
 * Recipes can afford to be less picky about which binaries are deployed.
   This simplifies component recipes.
 * It is easier to deploy debug symbols in a common way to an expected
   location.
 * It keeps the DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE clean in the face of ever-increasing
   firmware complexity.

The bbclass also provides a FIRMWARE_DEBUG_BUILD variable to control the
build type of the firmware in one place, defaulting to the global
DEBUG_BUILD. This should allow BSPs in meta-arm-bsp to more easily
provide a release build by default (by providing an easy switch for
development purposes when needed).

Signed-off-by: Peter Hoyes <peter.hoyes@arm.com>
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 meta-arm/classes-recipe/firmware.bbclass | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 meta-arm/classes-recipe/firmware.bbclass
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diff --git a/meta-arm/classes-recipe/firmware.bbclass b/meta-arm/classes-recipe/firmware.bbclass
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+# Common configuration for Arm firmware components
+
+# Firmware packages are always machine-specific
+PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
+
+# Allow all firmware to be debugged together
+FIRMWARE_DEBUG_BUILD ?= "${@oe.utils.vartrue('DEBUG_BUILD', '1', '0', d)}"
+
+# Use ${MACHINE} as the default platform name for firmware
+FIRMWARE_PLATFORM ?= "${MACHINE}"
+
+# Provide a standard folder layout for firmware packages
+FIRMWARE_BASE_DIR ?= "/firmware"
+FIRMWARE_DIR ?= "${FIRMWARE_BASE_DIR}/${PN}"
+FILES:${PN} = "${FIRMWARE_DIR}/*.bin"
+FILES:${PN}-dbg = "${FIRMWARE_DIR}/*.elf"
+SYSROOT_DIRS += "${FIRMWARE_DIR}"
+
+# Provide a default deploy implementation, which deploys to a subdirectory
+# of ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}
+inherit deploy
+
+do_deploy() {
+    install -d ${DEPLOYDIR}/${PN}
+    cp -rf ${D}${FIRMWARE_DIR}/* ${DEPLOYDIR}/${PN}
+}
+addtask deploy after do_install