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>
This reverts commit 819f1e081c.
This check was introduced in order to cope with the size limitation we had
when we were still using the raw environment in MMC. However, this
introduces padding as well, which can result in an overly huge binary if
one wants to flash the environment to some other location.
Since we now have a FAT-based environment, this check is not so useful
anymore, so we can just drop it.
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: Måns Rullgård <mans@mansr.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Jagan Teki <jagan@openedev.com>
The U-Boot binary may trip over its actual allocated size in the storage.
In such a case, the environment will not be readable anymore (because
corrupted when the new image was flashed), and any attempt at using saveenv
to reconstruct the environment will result in a corrupted U-Boot binary.
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Move sunxi boards to use binman. This involves adding the image definition
to the device tree and using it in the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>
