[U-Boot,03/26] binman: Update help for new features

Message ID	20190702002455.996-4-sjg@chromium.org
State	Superseded
Headers	show Return-Path: <u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de> From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> To: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 18:24:32 -0600 Message-Id: <20190702002455.996-4-sjg@chromium.org> In-Reply-To: <20190702002455.996-1-sjg@chromium.org> References: <20190702002455.996-1-sjg@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 03/26] binman: Update help for new features Precedence: list Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Errors-To: u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de Sender: "U-Boot" <u-boot-bounces@lists.denx.de>
Series	binman: Allow reading of images to list contents \| expand [U-Boot,00/26] binman: Allow reading of images to list contents [U-Boot,01/26] binman: Simplify the entry test [U-Boot,02/26] binman: Update future features [U-Boot,03/26] binman: Update help for new features [U-Boot,04/26] binman: Add an FDT map [U-Boot,05/26] binman: Add an image header [U-Boot,06/26] binman: Allow cbfstool to be optional with tests [U-Boot,07/26] binman: Convert to use ArgumentParser [U-Boot,08/26] binman: Move compression into the Entry base class [U-Boot,09/26] binman: Drop an unused arg in Entry.Lookup() [U-Boot,10/26] binman: Allow easy importing of entry modules [U-Boot,11/26] binman: Fix up ProcessUpdateContents error and comments [U-Boot,12/26] binman: Call ProcessUpdateContents() consistently [U-Boot,13/26] binman: Add a return value to ProcessContentsUpdate() [U-Boot,14/26] binman: Add a control for post-pack entry expansion [U-Boot,15/26] binman: Allow entries to expand after packing [U-Boot,16/26] binman: Allow device-tree entries to be compressed [U-Boot,17/26] binman: Provide the actual data address for cbfs files [U-Boot,18/26] binman: Use the cbfs memlen field only for uncompressed length [U-Boot,19/26] binman: Add a comment about CBFS test structure [U-Boot,20/26] binman: Support FDT update for CBFS [U-Boot,21/26] binman: Detect bad CBFS file types [U-Boot,22/26] binman: Allow listing the entries in an image [U-Boot,23/26] binman: Support reading in firmware images [U-Boot,24/26] binman: Support locating an image header [U-Boot,25/26] binman: Support reading an image into an Image object [U-Boot,26/26] binman: Support listing an image

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From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
To: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>
Date: Mon,  1 Jul 2019 18:24:32 -0600
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Series

binman: Allow reading of images to list contents | expand

Commit Message

Simon Glass July 2, 2019, 12:24 a.m. UTC

A few new features have been added. This has rendered part of the README
obsolete. Update it.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
---

 tools/binman/README | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README
index 92341a14b61..f07de350f60 100644
--- a/tools/binman/README
+++ b/tools/binman/README
@@ -36,10 +36,9 @@  suitable padding and alignment. It provides a way to process binaries before
 they are included, by adding a Python plug-in. The device tree is available
 to U-Boot at run-time so that the images can be interpreted.
 
-Binman does not yet update the device tree with the final location of
-everything when it is done. A simple C structure could be generated for
-constrained environments like SPL (using dtoc) but this is also not
-implemented.
+Binman can update the device tree with the final location of everything when it
+is done. Entry positions can be provided to U-Boot SPL as run-time symbols,
+avoiding device-tree code overhead.
 
 Binman can also support incorporating filesystems in the image if required.
 For example x86 platforms may use CBFS in some cases.

[U-Boot,03/26] binman: Update help for new features

Commit Message

Patch