FIT (Flat Image Tree) is the main image format used by U-Boot. In some
cases scripts are used to create FITs within the U-Boot build system. This
is not ideal for various reasons:
- Each architecture has its own slightly different script
- There are no tests
- Some are written in shell, some in Python
To help address this, add support for FIT generation to binman. This works
by putting the FIT source directly in the binman definition, with the
ability to adjust parameters, etc. The contents of each FIT image come
from sub-entries of the image, as is normal with binman.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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>
It is useful to be able to distinguish between ordinary blobs such as
u-boot.bin and external blobs that cannot be build by the U-Boot build
system. If the external blobs are not available for some reason, then we
know that a value image cannot be built.
Introduce a new 'blob-ext' entry type for that.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
As a first step to integrating mkimage into binman, add a new entry type
that feeds data into mkimage for processing and incorporates that output
into the image.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
FIT (Flat Image Tree) is the main image format used by U-Boot. In some
cases scripts are used to create FITs within the U-Boot build system. This
is not ideal for various reasons:
- Each architecture has its own slightly different script
- There are no tests
- Some are written in shell, some in Python
To help address this, add support for FIT generation to binman. This works
by putting the FIT source directly in the binman definition, with the
ability to adjust parameters, etc. The contents of each FIT image come
from sub-entries of the image, as is normal with binman.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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>
It is useful to be able to distinguish between ordinary blobs such as
u-boot.bin and external blobs that cannot be build by the U-Boot build
system. If the external blobs are not available for some reason, then we
know that a value image cannot be built.
Introduce a new 'blob-ext' entry type for that.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
As a first step to integrating mkimage into binman, add a new entry type
that feeds data into mkimage for processing and incorporates that output
into the image.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The suffix should be ".bin" instead of ".dtb" .
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This entry is used to hold an Intel FSP-T (Firmware Support Package
Temp-RAM init) binary. Add support for this in binman.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
This entry is used to hold an Intel FSP-S (Firmware Support Package
Silicon init) binary. Add support for this in binman.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
The Intel FSP supports initialising memory early during boot using a binary
blob called 'fspm'. Add support for this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
A Firmware Image Table (FIT) is a data structure defined by Intel which
contains information about various things needed by the SoC, such as
microcode.
Add support for this entry as well as the pointer to it. The contents of
FIT are fixed at present. Future work is needed to support adding
microcode, etc.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present these two sections of code are linked together into a single
2KB chunk in a single file. Some Intel SoCs like to have a FIT (Firmware
Interface Table) in the ROM and the pointer for this needs to go at
0xffffffc0 which is in the middle of these two sections.
Make use of the new 'reset' entry and change the existing 16-bit entry to
include just the 16-bit data.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present binman has a single entry type for the 16-bit code code needed
to start up an x86 processor. This entry is intended to include both the
reset vector itself as well as the code to move to 32-bit mode.
However this is not very flexible since in some cases other data needs to
be included at the top of the SPI flash, in between these two pieces. For
example Intel requires that a FIT (Firmware Image Table) pointer be placed
0x40 bytes before the end of the ROM.
To deal with this, add a new reset entry for just the reset vector. A
subsequent change will adjust the existing 'start16' entry.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present the Intel IFWI entry uses 'replace' without the 'ifwi-' prefix.
This is a fairly generic name which might conflict with the main Entry
base class at some point, if more features are added. Add a prefix.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The FMAP is not intended to show the files inside a CBFS. The FMAP can be
used to locate the CBFS itself, but then the CBFS must be read to find out
what is in it.
Update the FMAP to work this way and add some debugging while we are here.
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>
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 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>
An FDT map is an entry which holds a full description of the image
entries, in FDT format. It can be discovered using the magic string at
its start. Tools can locate and read this entry to find out what entries
are in the image and where each entry is located.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
A feature of CBFS is that it allows files to be positioned at particular
offset (as with binman in general). This is useful to support
execute-in-place (XIP) code, since this may not be relocatable.
Add a new cbfs-offset property to control this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add support for putting CBFSs (Coreboot Filesystems) in an image. This
allows binman to produce firmware images used by coreboot to boot.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
We currenty support using the ELF file in U-Boot proper and SPL, but not
TPL. Add this as it is useful both with sandbox and for CBFS to allow
adding TPL as a 'stage'.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present text entries use an indirect method to specify the text to use,
with a label pointing to the text itself.
Allow the text to be directly written into the node. This is more
convenient in cases where the text is constant.
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>
A few minor changes have been made including one new entry. Update the
documentation with:
$ binman -E >tools/binman/README.entries
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
For sandbox we want to put ELF files in the image since that is what we
need to execute. Add support for this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When TPL is used on x86 we may want to program the microcode (at least for
the first CPU) early in boot. Add support for this by refactoring the
existing code to be more generic.
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>
Add support for compressing blob entries. This can help reduce image sizes
for many types of data. It requires that the firmware be able to
decompress the data at run-time.
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>
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>
Sometimes we want to include TPL for x86 platforms, such as when we want
to select between different SPL images (e.g. for Chrome OS verified boot).
Add support for this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This entry contains the PowerPC mpc85xx boot page and resetvec
sections.
Signed-off-by: Jagdish Gediya <jagdish.gediya@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
Add support for U-Boot's TPL and TPL device tree. Also fix a few comments
in the other device-tree entries.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is sometimes useful to have an area of the image which is all zeroes,
or all 0xff. This can often be achieved by padding the size of an an
existing entry and setting the pad byte for an entry or image.
But it is useful to have an explicit means of adding blocks of repeating
data to the image. Add a 'fill' entry type to handle this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add an entry type which can hold a Chrome OS EC.
To make this work a new entry type is created, which supports getting a
blob filename from the command line.
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>
Create a new README containing documentation for the entry types supported
by binman. This provides an easy reference in one place. It is
automatically generated from the source-code documentation.
Add a reference to this from the binman README.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
