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Simon Glass
81b71c3200 binman: Move entry-data collection into a Entry method
Collecting the data from a list of entries and putting it in a file is
a useful operation that will be needed by other entry types. Put this into
a method in the Entry class.

Add some documentation about how to collect data for an entry type.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2022-02-22 10:05:44 -07:00
Simon Glass
523cde0637 binman: Add to the TODO
Add some ideas that have come to mind recently.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2022-02-22 10:05:44 -07:00
Simon Glass
206985ecb7 binman: Update docs to indicate mkimage is supported
Now that there is a mkimage entry-type, update the docs to remove the
future reference.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2022-02-22 10:05:44 -07:00
Heiko Thiery
2ce07383a4 binman: doc: fix typo for u-boot-tpl
Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2022-01-25 14:02:38 -07:00
Simon Glass
61a631e912 binman: Document the __bss_size symbol error
Add a note about the message so it is clear why it occurs.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2022-01-25 14:02:38 -07:00
Simon Glass
3e7749eaea binman: Add documentation for bintools
Add this documention to explain how bintools are used and which ones are
available.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2022-01-25 12:36:11 -07:00
Simon Glass
81d6e3f088 binman: Add installation instructions
Explain how to install binman, since it is not obvious.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2022-01-25 12:36:11 -07:00
Simon Glass
ed96683e00 fdt: Make it easier to debug u-boot.dtsi files
At present one must hack the Makefile to see what is going on with these
files. Also it doesn't quite work correctly.

Fix this by using an environment variable for debugging. Update the docs
also.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-12-23 10:24:39 -05:00
Simon Glass
8e0768124f fdt: Drop CONFIG_BINMAN_STANDALONE_FDT
This was added as a hack to work around not having an in-tree devicetree.
Now that this is fixed it is not needed.

Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-12-23 10:24:39 -05:00
Simon Glass
943bf78a48 binman: Allow extracting a file in an alternative format
In some cases entries encapsulate other data and it is useful to access
the data within. An example is the fdtmap which consists of a 16-byte
header, followed by a devicetree.

Provide an option to specify an alternative format when extracting files.
In the case of fdtmap, this is 'fdt', which produces an FDT file which can
be viewed with fdtdump.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-12-05 09:22:41 -07:00
Simon Glass
858436dfda binman: Allow listing an image created by a newer version
If an older version of binman is used to list images created by a newer
one, it is possible that it will contain entry types that are not
supported. At present this produces an error.

Adjust binman to use a plain 'blob' entry type to cope with this, so the
image can at least be listed.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-12-05 09:21:44 -07:00
Simon Glass
7945077f79 binman: Allow providing tools and blob directories
At present it is necessary to symlink files containing external blobs into
the U-Boot tree in order for binman to find them. This is not very
convenient.

Add two new environment/Makefile variables to help with this. Add
documentation as well, fixing a related nit.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-12-05 09:21:44 -07:00
Simon Glass
0427bed63b binman: Support updating the dtb in an ELF file
WIth EFI we must embed the devicetree in an ELF image so that it is loaded
as part of the executable file. We want it to include the binman
definition in there also, which in some cases cannot be created until the
ELF (u-boot) is built. Add an option to binman to support writing the
updated dtb to the ELF file u-boot.out

This is useful with the EFI app, which is always packaged as an ELF file.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-11-13 08:16:39 -07:00
Ilias Apalodimas
d6f8ab30a2 treewide: Remove OF_PRIOR_STAGE
The previous patches removed OF_PRIOR_STAGE from the last consumers of the
Kconfig option.  Cleanup any references to it in documentation,  code and
configuration options.

Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-10-18 13:19:50 -04:00
Simon Glass
c69d19c8f8 binman: Support multithreading for building images
Some images may take a while to build, e.g. if they are large and use slow
compression. Support compiling sections in parallel to speed things up.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
(fixed to use a separate test file to fix flakiness)
2021-07-21 10:27:35 -06:00
Bin Meng
31eefd4380 binman: Support packaging U-Boot for scenarios like OF_BOARD or OF_PRIOR_STAGE
For scenarios like OF_BOARD or OF_PRIOR_STAGE, no device tree blob is
provided in the U-Boot build phase hence the binman node information
is not available. In order to support such use case, a new Kconfig
option BINMAN_STANDALONE_FDT is introduced, to tell the build system
that a device tree blob containing binman node is explicitly required
when using binman to package U-Boot.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-05-19 17:01:50 +08:00
Bin Meng
2817c9dd32 binman: Correct '-a' description in the doc
It needs a space around '-a'.

Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Rick Chen <rick@andestech.com>
2021-05-19 17:01:49 +08:00
Simon Glass
5ff9fedc9b binman: Support default alignment for sections
Sometimes it is useful to specify the default alignment for all entries
in a section, such as when word-alignment is necessary, for example. It
is tedious and error-prone to specify this individually for each section.

Add a property to control this for a section.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-03-27 16:26:48 +13:00
Simon Glass
3d43338293 binman: Allow disabling expanding an entry
At present there is a command-line flag to disable substitution of expanded
entries. Add an option to the entry node as well, so it can be controlled
at the node level.

Add a test to cover this. Fix up the comment to the checkSymbols() function
it uses, while we are here.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-03-27 16:26:48 +13:00
Simon Glass
fcae6682a7 binman: Update various pieces of the documentation
A few sections are a little out of date now. Update them.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-03-26 17:03:10 +13:00
Simon Glass
072026e7bb binman: Rearrange documentation into headings
Collect the material into different top-level headings to make it easier
to read.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-03-26 17:03:10 +13:00
Simon Glass
61adb2d247 binman: doc: Add documentation to htmldocs
Add a link to binman's documentation and adjust the files so that it is
accessible. Use the name README.rst so it is easy to discover when binman
is installed without U-Boot.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2021-03-26 17:03:10 +13:00
Renamed from tools/binman/README (Browse further)