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Author SHA1 Message Date
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A few sections are a little out of date now.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)