Binman construct images consisting of multiple binary files. These files
sometimes need to know (at run timme) where their peers are located. For
example, SPL may want to know where U-Boot is located in the image, so
that it can jump to U-Boot correctly on boot.
In general the positions where the binaries end up after binman has
finished packing them cannot be known at compile time. One reason for
this is that binman does not know the size of the binaries until
everything is compiled, linked and converted to binaries with objcopy.
To make this work, we add a feature to binman which checks each binary
for symbol names starting with '_binman'. These are then decoded to figure
out which entry and property they refer to. Then binman writes the value
of this symbol into the appropriate binary. With this, the symbol will
have the correct value at run time.
Macros are used to make this easier to use. As an example, this declares
a symbol that will access the 'u-boot-spl' entry to find the 'pos' value
(i.e. the position of SPL in the image):
binman_sym_declare(unsigned long, u_boot_spl, pos);
This converts to a symbol called '_binman_u_boot_spl_prop_pos' in any
binary that includes it. Binman then updates the value in that binary,
ensuring that it can be accessed at runtime with:
ulong u_boot_pos = binman_sym(ulong, u_boot_spl, pos);
This assigns the variable u_boot_pos to the position of SPL in the image.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The elf module can provide some debugging information to assist with
figuring out what is going wrong. This is also useful in tests. Update the
-D option so that it is passed through to tests as well.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
In some cases we need to read symbols from U-Boot. At present we have a
a few cases which does this via 'nm' and 'grep'.
It is better to use objdump since that tells us the size of the symbols
and also whether it is weak or not.
Add a new module which reads ELF information from files. Update existing
uses of 'nm' to use this module.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Add a test that the 'entry' module works with or without importlib.
The tests are numbered so that they are executed in the correct order.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present these tests use the same filename as patman. This adds
confusion when running all tests, since error messages look very similar.
In fact binman tries to run the wrong tests at present.
Rename the tests.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
The pylibfdt is used by dtoc (and, indirectly by binman), but there
is no reason why it must be generated in the tools/ directory.
Recently, U-Boot switched over to the bundled DTC, and the directory
structure under scripts/dtc/ now mirrors the upstream DTC project.
So, scripts/dtc/pylibfdt is the best location.
I also rewrote the Makefile in a cleaner Kbuild style.
The scripts from the upstream have been moved as follows:
lib/libfdt/pylibfdt/setup.py -> scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/setup.py
lib/libfdt/pylibfdt/libfdt.i -> scripts/dtc/pylibfdt/libfdt.i_shipped
The .i_shipped is coped to .i during building because the .i must be
located in the objtree when we build it out of tree.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
If a system module is named the same as one of those used by binman we
currently pick the system module. Adjust the ordering so that our modules
are chosen instead.
The module conflict reported was 'tools' from jira-python. I cannot access
that package to test it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
This tool does not work with Python 3. Change the shebang to make sure the
script is run by a Python 2 interpreter.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Krause <joerg.krause@embedded.rocks>
The built _libfdt.so is placed in the /tools dir and need to say here
as it contains relative paths.
Add the directory to the python path so binman can use this module.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Some OS (all BSD and probably others) do not have python in /usr/bin
but in another directory.
It is a common usage to use /usr/bin/env python as shebang for python
scripts so use this for binman.
Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
This adds the basic code for binman, including command parsing, processing
of entries and generation of images.
So far no entry types are supported. These will be added in future commits
as examples of how to add new types.
See the README for documentation.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>
Simon Glass
Masahiro Yamada
Jörg Krause
Emmanuel Vadot