Sometimes it is useful to build an image even though external binaries are
not present. This allows the build system to continue to function without
these files, albeit not producing valid images.
U-Boot does with with ATF (ARM Trusted Firmware) today.
Add a new flag to binman to request this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
At present patman sets the python path on startup so that it can access
the libraries it needs. If we convert to use absolute imports this is not
necessary.
Move patman to use absolute imports. This requires changes in tools which
use the patman libraries (which is most of them).
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present binman sets the python path on startup so that it can access
the libraries it needs. If we convert to use absolute imports this is not
necessary.
Move binman to use absolute imports. This enables removable of the path
adjusting in Entry also.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When preparing to possible expand or contract an entry we reset the size
to the original value from the binman device-tree definition, which is
often None.
This causes binman to forget the original size of the entry. Remember this
so that it can be used when needed.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present if libfdt is not available binman can't do anything much.
Improve the situation a little.
Ideally there should be a test to cover this, but I'm not quite sure how
to fake this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
(fixed up missing ReadChildData() enty test)
Some x86 sections have special offsets which currently result in empty
data being returned from the 'extract' command. Fix this by taking account
of the skip-at-start property.
Add a little more debugging while we are here.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
At present this function is not present in the Entry base class so it is
hard to find the documentation for it. Move the docs from the section
class and expand it a little.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
At present this method assumes that the parent section does not need
to recalculate its position or adjust any metadata it may contain. But
when the entry changes size this may not be true. Also if the parent
section is more than just a container (e.g. it is a CBFS) then the
section may need to regenerate its output.
Add a new WriteChildData() method to sections and call this from the
WriteData() method, to handle this situation.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present we simply extract the data directly from entries using the
image_pos information. This happens to work on current entry types, but
cannot work if the entry type encodes the data in some way. Update the
ReadData() method to provide the data by calling a new ReadChildData()
method in the parent. This allows the entry_Section class, or possibly
any other container class, to return the correct data in all cases.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Sometimes an entry may shrink after it has already been packed. In that
case we must repack the items. Of course it is always possible to just
leave the entry at its original size and waste space at the end. This is
what binman does by default, since there is the possibility of the entry
changing size every time binman calculates its contents, thus causing a
loop.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The positioning does not currently work correctly if at the end of an
image with no fixed size. Also if the header is in the middle of an image
it can cause a gap in the image since the header position is normally at
the image end, so entries after it are placed after the end of the image.
Fix these problems and add more tests to cover these cases.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present it is not possible to discover the contraints to repacking an
image (e.g. maximum section size) since this information is not preserved
from the original image description.
Add new 'orig-offset' and 'orig-size' properties to hold this. Add them to
the main device tree in the image.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
While it is useful and efficient to build images in a single pass from a
unified description, it is sometimes desirable to update the image later.
Add support for replace an existing file with one of the same size. This
avoids needing to repack the file. Support for more advanced updates will
come in future patches.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present we have an 'image' property in the entry for this purpose, but
this is not necessary and seems error-prone in the presence of
inheritance. Add a function instead. The Entry_section class overrides
this with a special version, since top-level sections are in fact images,
since Image inherits Entry_section.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present the Entry constructor sets up the object and then immediately
reads its device-tree node to obtain its properties.
This breaks a convention that constructors should not do any processing.
A consequence is that we must pass all arguments to the constructor and
cannot have the node-reading proceed in a different way unless we pass
flags to that constructor. We already have a 'test' flag in a few cases,
and now need to control whether the 'orig_offset' and 'orig_size'
properties are set or not.
Adjust the code to require a separate call to ReadNode() after
construction. The Image class remains as it was.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When modifying an image it is convenient to load the data from the file
into each entry so that it can be reprocessed. Add a new LoadData() method
to handle this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Use the new logging feature to log information about progress with
packing. This is useful to see how binman is figuring things out.
Also update elf.py to use the same feature.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present the FDTs are keyed by their default filename (not their actual
filename). It seems easier to key by the entry type, since this is always
the same for each FDT type.
To do this, add a new Entry method called GetFdtEtype(). This is necessary
since some entry types contain a device tree which are not the simple
three entry types 'u-boot-dtb', 'u-boot-spl' or 'u-boot-tpl'.
The code already returns a dict for GetFdt(). Update the value of that
dict to include the filename so that existing code can work.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present this function returns a set of device-tree filenames. It has no
way of returning the actual device-tree object. Change it to a dictionary
so that we can add this feature in a future patch.
Also drop fdt_set since it is no-longer used.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present we check the filename to see if an entry holds a device-tree
file. It is easier to use the base class designed for this purpose.
Move this method implementation into Entry_blob_dtb and update the default
one to return an empty set.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is useful to be able to extract entry contents from an image to see
what is inside. Add a simple function to read the contents of an entry,
decompressing it by default.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Binman generally operates silently but in some cases it is useful to see
what Binman is actually doing at each step. Enable some logging output
with different logging levels selectable via the -v flag.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When support for sections (and thus hierarchical images) was added to
binman, the decision was made to create a new Section class which could
be used by both Image and an Entry_section class. The decision between
using inheritance and composition was tricky to make, but in the end it
was decided that Image was different enough from Entry that it made sense
to put the implementation of sections in an entirely separate class. It
also has the advantage that core Image code does have to rely on an entry
class in the etype directory.
This work was mostly completed in commit:
8f1da50ccc "binman: Refactor much of the image code into 'section'
As a result of this, the Section class has its own version of things like
offset and size and these must be kept in sync with the parent
Entry_section class in some cases.
In the last year it has become apparent that the cost of keeping things in
sync is larger than expected, since more and more code wants to access
these properties.
An alternative approach, previously considered and rejected, now seems
better.
Adjust Image to be a subclass of Entry_section. Move the code from Section
(in bsection.py) to Entry_section and delete Section. Update all tests
accordingly.
This requires substantial changes to Image. Overall the changes reduce
code size by about 240 lines. While much of that is just boilerplate from
Section, there are quite a few functions in Entry_section which now do not
need to be overiden from Entry. This suggests the change is beneficial
even without further functionality being added.
A side benefit is that the properties of sections are now consistent with
other entries. This fixes a problem in testListCmd() where some properties
are missing for sections.
Unfortunately this is a very large commit since it is not feasible to do
the migration piecemeal. Given the substantial tests available and the
100% code coverage of binman, we should be able to do this safely.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is possible to read an Image, locate its FDT map and then read it into
the binman data structures. This allows full access to the entries that
were written to the image. Add support for this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is useful to be able to summarise all the entries in an image, e.g. to
display this to this user. Add a new ListEntries() method to Entry, and
set up a way to call it through the Image class.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add support for detecting entries that change size after they have already
been packed, and re-running packing when it happens.
This removes the limitation that entry size cannot change after
PackEntries() is called.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present if this function tries to update the contents such that the
size changes, it raises an error. We plan to add the ability to change
the size of entries after packing is completed, since in some cases it is
not possible to determine the size in advance.
An example of this is with a compressed device tree, where the values
of the device tree change in SetCalculatedProperties() or
ProcessEntryContents(). While the device tree itself does not change size,
since placeholders for any new properties have already bee added by
AddMissingProperties(), we cannot predict the size of the device tree
after compression. If a value changes from 0 to 0x1234 (say), then the
compressed device tree may expand.
As a first step towards supporting this, make ProcessContentsUpdate()
return a value indicating whether the content size is OK. For now this is
always True (since otherwise binman raises an error), but later patches
will adjust this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This function raises an exception with its arguments around the wrong way
so the message is incorrect. Fix this as well as a few minor comment
problems.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present entry modules can only be accessed using Entry.Lookup() or
Entry.Create(). Most of the time this is fine, but sometimes a module
needs to provide constants or helper functions useful to other modules.
It is easier in this case to use 'import'.
Add an __init__ file to permit this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Compression is currently available only with blobs. However we want to
report the compression algorithm and uncompressed size for all entries,
so that other entry types can support compression. This will help with
the forthcoming 'list' feature which lists entries in the image.
Move the compression properties into the base class. Also fix up the docs
which had the wrong property name.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is useful to be able to quickly locate the FDT map in the image. An
easy way to do this is with a pointer at the start or end of the image.
Add an 'image header' entry, which places a magic number followed by a
pointer to the FDT map. This can be located at the start or end of the
image, or at a chosen location.
As part of this, update GetSiblingImagePos() to detect missing siblings.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present this function always sets both the offset and the size of
entries. But in some cases we want to set only one or the other, for
example with the forthcoming ifwi entry, where we only set the offset.
Update the function to handle this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present having a descriptor means that there is an ME (Intel
Management Engine) entry as well. The descriptor provides the ME location
and assumes that it is present.
For some SoCs this is not true. Before providing the location of a
potentially non-existent entry, check if it is present.
Update the comment in the ME entry also.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When we get a problem like overlapping regions it is sometimes hard to
figure what what is going on. At present we don't write the map file in
this case. However the file does provide useful information.
Catch any packing errors and write a map file (if enabled with -m) to aid
debugging.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Normally x86 platforms use the end-at-4gb option. This currently produces
an FMAP with positions which have a large offset. The use of end-at-4gb is
a useful convenience within binman, but we don't really want to export
a map with these offsets.
Fix this by subtracting the 'skip at start' parameter.
Also put the code which convers names to fmap format, for clarity.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Sometimesi it us useful to be able to verify the content of entries with
a hash. Add an easy way to do this in binman. The hash information can be
retrieved from the device tree at run time.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
In some cases it is useful to add a group of files to the image and be
able to access them at run-time. Of course it is possible to generate
the binman config file with a set of blobs each with a filename. But for
convenience, add an entry type which can do this.
Add required support (for adding nodes and string properties) into the
state module.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Binman currently supports updating the main device tree with things like
the position of each entry. Extend this support to SPL and TPL as well,
since they may need (a subset of) this information.
Also adjust DTB output files to have a .out extension since this seems
clearer than having a .dtb extension with 'out' in the name somwhere.
Also add a few missing comments and update the DT setup code to use
ReadFile and WriteFile().
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
We always have a device tree for U-Boot proper. But we may also have one
for SPL and TPL. Add a new Entry method to find out what DTs an entry
has, and use that list when updating DTs.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present we have a few calls to device-tree functions in binman and plan
to add more as we add new entry types which need to report their results.
It makes sense to put this code in a central place so that we can make
sure all device trees are updated. At present we only have U-Boot proper,
but plan to add SPL and TPL too.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present the control module has state information in it, since it is the
primary user of this. But it is a bit odd to have entries and other
modules importing control to obtain this information.
It seems better to have a dedicated state module, which control can use as
well. Create a new module using code from control and update other modules
to use it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Various entry implementations provide a way to obtain the default filename
for an entry. But at present there is no base-class implementation for
this function. Add one so that the API is defined.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present if there are two vblock entries an image their contents are
written to the same file in the output directory. This prevents checking
the contents of each separately.
Fix this by adding part of the entry path to the filename, and add some
missing comments.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This property has been changed to 'offset'. To help downstream users who
might still be using 'pos', add a check that this is not used by mistake.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present the map only shows the offset and size for each region. The
image position provides the actual position of each entry in the image,
regardless of the section hierarchy.
Add the image position to the map.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add an entry which can hold an FMAP region as used by flashrom, an
open-source flashing tool used on Linux x86 machines. This provides a
simplified non-hierarchical view of the entries in the image and has a
signature at the start to allow flashrom to find it in the image.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Binman supports quite a number of different entries now. The operation of
these is not always obvious but at present the source code is the only
reference for understanding how an entry works.
Add a way to create documentation (from the source code) which can be put
in a new 'README.entries' file.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Sometimes it is useful to pass binman the value of an entry property from
the command line. For example some entries need access to files and it is
not always convenient to put these filenames in the image definition
(device tree).
Add a -a option which can be used like this:
-a<prop>=<value>
where
<prop> is the property to set
<value> is the value to set it to
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present each entry has an offset within its parent section. This is
useful for figuring out how entries relate to one another. However it
is sometimes necessary to locate an entry within an image, regardless
of which sections it is nested inside.
Add a new 'image-pos' property to provide this information. Also add
some documentation for the -u option binman provides, which updates the
device tree with final entry information.
Since the image position is a better symbol to use for the position of
U-Boot as obtained by SPL, update the SPL symbols to use this instead of
offset, which might be incorrect if hierarchical sections are used.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present the .map file produced for each image does not include the
overall image size. This is useful information.
Update the code to generate it in the .map file as well as the updated
FDT. Also fix a few comments while we are here.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
After some thought, I believe there is an unfortunate naming flaw in
binman. Entries have a position and size, but now that we support
hierarchical sections it is unclear whether a position should be an
absolute position within the image, or a relative position within its
parent section.
At present 'position' actually means the relative position. This indicates
a need for an 'image position' for code that wants to find the location of
an entry without having to do calculations back through parents to
discover this image position.
A better name for the current 'position' or 'pos' is 'offset'. It is not
always an absolute position, but it is always an offset from its parent
offset.
It is unfortunate to rename this concept now, 18 months after binman was
introduced. However I believe it is the right thing to do. The impact is
mostly limited to binman itself and a few changes to in-tree users to
binman:
tegra
sunxi
x86
The change makes old binman definitions (e.g. downstream or out-of-tree)
incompatible if they use the 'pos = <...>' property. Later work will
adjust binman to generate an error when it is used.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Once binman has packed the image, the position and size of each entry is
known. It is then possible for binman to update the device tree with these
positions. Since placeholder values have been added, this does not affect
the size of the device tree and therefore the packing does not need to be
performed again.
Add a new SetCalculatedProperties method to handle this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Some entry types modify the device tree, e.g. to remove microcode or add a
property. So far this just modifies their local copy and does not affect
a 'shared' device tree.
Rather than doing this modification in the ObtainContents() method, and a
new ProcessFdt() method which is specifically designed to modify this
shared device tree.
Move the existing device-tree code over to use this method, reducing
ObtainContents() to the goal of just obtaining the contents without any
processing, even for device tree.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present the contents of an entry are set in subclasses simply by
assigning to the data and content_size properties. Add some methods to do
this, so that we have more control. In particular, add a method to set the
contents without changing its size, so we can validate that case.
Add a test case for trying to change the size when this is not allowed.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Sometimes we have several sections which repeat the same entries (e.g. for
a read-only and read-write version of the same section). It is useful to
be able to tell these entries apart by name.
Add a new 'name-prefix' property for sections, which causes all entries
within that section to have a given name prefix.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is useful to be able to see a list of regions in each image produced by
binman. Add a -m option to output this information in a '.map' file
alongside the image file.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is useful to be able to split an image into multiple sections,
each with its own size and position, for cases where a flash device has
read-only and read-write portions.
Add support for this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present we set the Python path at the start of binman so we can read
modules in the 'etype' directory. This is a bit messy since it affects
'import' statements through binman.
Adjust the code to set the path locally, just where it is needed. Move
the 'entry' module in with the other base modules to help with this. It
makes more sense here anyway since it does not implement an entry type.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
