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[U-Boot,v2,03/31] binman: Update help for new features

Message ID	20190708202553.225715-4-sjg@chromium.org
State	Accepted
Commit	57460184686f83386712c366cd7722d1aa35f09d
Delegated to:	Simon Glass
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, 8 Jul 2019 14:25:25 -0600 Message-Id: <20190708202553.225715-4-sjg@chromium.org> In-Reply-To: <20190708202553.225715-1-sjg@chromium.org> References: <20190708202553.225715-1-sjg@chromium.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2 03/31] 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,v2,00/31] binman: Allow reading of images to list contents [U-Boot,v2,01/31] binman: Simplify the entry test [U-Boot,v2,02/31] binman: Update future features [U-Boot,v2,03/31] binman: Update help for new features [U-Boot,v2,04/31] binman: Add a convenience functions for real-DTB tests [U-Boot,v2,05/31] binman: Add an FDT map [U-Boot,v2,06/31] binman: Add an image header [U-Boot,v2,07/31] binman: Convert to use ArgumentParser [U-Boot,v2,08/31] binman: Move compression into the Entry base class [U-Boot,v2,09/31] binman: Drop an unused arg in Entry.Lookup() [U-Boot,v2,10/31] binman: Allow easy importing of entry modules [U-Boot,v2,11/31] binman: Fix up ProcessUpdateContents error and comments [U-Boot,v2,12/31] binman: Call ProcessUpdateContents() consistently [U-Boot,v2,13/31] binman: Add a return value to ProcessContentsUpdate() [U-Boot,v2,14/31] binman: Add a control for post-pack entry expansion [U-Boot,v2,15/31] binman: Allow entries to expand after packing [U-Boot,v2,16/31] binman: Allow device-tree entries to be compressed [U-Boot,v2,17/31] binman: Provide the actual data address for cbfs files [U-Boot,v2,18/31] binman: Use the cbfs memlen field only for uncompressed length [U-Boot,v2,19/31] binman: Support FDT update for CBFS [U-Boot,v2,20/31] binman: Detect bad CBFS file types [U-Boot,v2,21/31] binman: Allow listing the entries in an image [U-Boot,v2,22/31] binman: Support locating an FDT map [U-Boot,v2,23/31] binman: Support locating an image header [U-Boot,v2,24/31] binman: Support reading an image into an Image object [U-Boot,v2,25/31] binman: Convert Image to a subclass of Entry [U-Boot,v2,26/31] binman: Support listing an image [U-Boot,v2,27/31] binman: Allow for logging information to be displayed [U-Boot,v2,28/31] binman: Allow reading an entry from an image [U-Boot,v2,29/31] binman: Support reading from CBFS entries [U-Boot,v2,30/31] binman: Add an 'extract' command [U-Boot,v2,31/31] binman: Add a test for nested and aligned sections

Commit Message

Simon Glass July 8, 2019, 8:25 p.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>
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Changes in v2: None

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

Comments

Simon Glass July 18, 2019, 1:59 a.m. UTC | #1

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>
---

Changes in v2: None

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

Applied to u-boot-dm, thanks!

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diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README
index 1851a4e536d..b067d3b78cf 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.