While converting to binman for an imx8mq board, it has been found that
building in the u-boot CI fails. This is because an imx8mq requires an
external binary (signed_hdmi_imx8m.bin). If this file cannot be found
mkimage fails.
To be able to build this board in the u-boot CI a binman option
(--fake-ext-blobs) is introduced that can be switched on via the u-boot
makefile option BINMAN_FAKE_EXT_BLOBS. With that the needed dummy files are
created.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Thiery <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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>
Collect the code for printing the full help message of patman, buildman
and binman into a single function in patman.tools.
Signed-off-by: Paul Barker <paul.barker@sancloud.com>
One of binman's attributes is that it is extremely fast, at least for a
Python program. Add some simple timing around operations that might take
a while, such as reading an image and compressing it. This should help
to maintain the performance as new features are added.
This is for debugging purposes only.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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)
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>
Add support for this feature in the control, image and section modules, so
that expanded entries will be selected by default. So far there are no
expanded entry types, so this is a nop.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Extracting files to the current directory is not normally a very friendly
thing to do, but it can be warranted, e.g. in a new temporary dir. At
present binman reports an error when such an attempt is made. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This method introduces a separation between packing and checking that is
different for sections. In order to handle compression properly, we need
to be able to deal with a section's size being smaller than the
uncompressed size of its contents. It is easier to make this work if
everything happens in the Pack() method.
The only real user of CheckEntries() is entry_Section and it can call it
directly. Drop the call from 'control' and handle it locally.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This is only used by entry_Section and that class already calls it. Avoid
calling it twice. Also drop it from the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When a section is compressed, all entries within it are grouped together
into a compressed block of data. This obscures the start of each
individual child entry.
Avoid reporting bogus 'image-pos' properties in this case, since it is
not possible to access the entry at the location provided. The entire
section must be decompressed first.
CBFS does not support compressing whole sections, only individual files,
so needs no special handling here.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When an external blob is missing it can be quite confusing for the user.
Add a way to provide a help message that is shown.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiyasak@gmail.com>
Tidy up a few test functions which lack argument comments. Rename one that
has the same name as a different test.
Also fix up the comment for PrepareImagesAndDtbs().
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present we look for resources based on the path of the Python module
that wants them. Instead we should use Python's pkg_resources feature
which is designed for this purpose.
Update binman to use this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Some of these were not converted when binman moved to use absolute paths.
Fix them.
Also drop the import of 'test' which is a directory, not a module.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When binman is installed its main program is in a different directory
to its modules. This means that __file__ is different and we cannot use
it to obtain the path to etype/ from main.py
To fix this, move the function to the 'control' module, since it is
installed with all the other modules, including the etype/ directory.
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>
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>
At present the symbol information is written to binaries just before
binman exits. This is fine for entries within sections since the section
contents is calculated when it is needed, so the updated symbol values are
included in the image that is written.
However some binaries are inside entries which have already generated
their contents and do not notice that the entries have changed (e.g. Intel
IFWI).
Move the symbol writing earlier to cope with this.
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)
At present the verbose flag only works for the 'build' command. This is
not intended, nor is it useful. Update the code to support the verbose
flag and make use of a command exception handler.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
[bmeng: rebase the patch against u-boot-x86/next to get it applied cleanly]
Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Add a 'replace' command to binman to permit entries to be replaced, either
individually or all at once (using a filter).
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
This code has three distinct phases:
1. The image is loaded and the state module is set up
2. The entry is written to the image
3. The image is repacked and written back to the file
Split the code out with three separate functions, one for each phase.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present binman cannot replace data within a CBFS since it does not
allow rewriting of the files in that CBFS. Implement this by using the
new WriteData() method to handle the case.
Add a header to compressed data so that the amount of compressed data can
be determined without reference to the size of the containing entry. This
allows the entry to be larger that the contents, without causing errors in
decompression. This is necessary to cope with a compressed device tree
being updated in such a way that it shrinks after the entry size is
already set (an obscure case). It is not used with CBFS since it has its
own metadata for this. Increase the number of passes allowed to resolve
the position of entries, to handle this case.
Add a test for this new logic.
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>
So far we don't allow entries to change size when repacking. But this is
not very useful since it is common for entries to change size after an
updated binary is built, etc.
Add support for this, respecting the original offset/size/alignment
constraints of the image layout. For this to work the original image
must have been created with the 'allow-repack' property.
This does not support entry types with sub-entries such as files and
CBFS, but it does support sections.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
When reading an image in, write its fdtmap to a file in the output
directory. This is useful for debugging. Update the 'ls' command to set up
the output directory; otherwise it will fail.
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>
This function name conflicts with Entry.GetFdts() which has a different
purpose. Rename it to avoid confusion. Also update a stale comment
relating to this function.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Further reduce the size of the main Binman() function by moving this setup
code into its own function.
Note that the 'images' value is accessed from other modules so must be made
a global.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
It is useful to be able to extract all binaries from the image, or a
subset of them. Add a new 'extract' command to handle this.
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>
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>
This class is the new way to handle arguments in Python. Convert binman
over to use it. At the same time, introduce commands so that we can
separate out the different parts of binman functionality.
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>
Sometimes tools used by binman may not be in the normal PATH search path,
such as when the tool is built by the U-Boot build itself (e.g. mkimage).
Provide a way to specify an additional search path for tools. The flag
can be used multiple times.
Update the help to describe this option.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
