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<title>binman: Add a test to catch use of the old 'pos' property</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T22:30:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2018-07-17T19:25:51+00:00</published>
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This property has been changed to 'offset'. To help downstream users who
might still be using 'pos', add a check that this is not used by mistake.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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This property has been changed to 'offset'. To help downstream users who
might still be using 'pos', add a check that this is not used by mistake.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<title>binman: Show the image position in the map</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T22:30:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2018-07-17T19:25:49+00:00</published>
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At present the map only shows the offset and size for each region. The
image position provides the actual position of each entry in the image,
regardless of the section hierarchy.

Add the image position to the map.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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At present the map only shows the offset and size for each region. The
image position provides the actual position of each entry in the image,
regardless of the section hierarchy.

Add the image position to the map.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>binman: Add an entry for a Chromium vblock</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T22:30:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2018-07-17T19:25:47+00:00</published>
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This adds support for a Chromium verified boot block, used to sign a
read-write section of the image.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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This adds support for a Chromium verified boot block, used to sign a
read-write section of the image.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>binman: Add support for flashrom FMAP</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T22:30:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2018-07-17T19:25:38+00:00</published>
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Add an entry which can hold an FMAP region as used by flashrom, an
open-source flashing tool used on Linux x86 machines. This provides a
simplified non-hierarchical view of the entries in the image and has a
signature at the start to allow flashrom to find it in the image.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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Add an entry which can hold an FMAP region as used by flashrom, an
open-source flashing tool used on Linux x86 machines. This provides a
simplified non-hierarchical view of the entries in the image and has a
signature at the start to allow flashrom to find it in the image.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>binman: Allow creation of entry documentation</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T22:30:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-17T19:25:36+00:00</published>
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Binman supports quite a number of different entries now. The operation of
these is not always obvious but at present the source code is the only
reference for understanding how an entry works.

Add a way to create documentation (from the source code) which can be put
in a new 'README.entries' file.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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Binman supports quite a number of different entries now. The operation of
these is not always obvious but at present the source code is the only
reference for understanding how an entry works.

Add a way to create documentation (from the source code) which can be put
in a new 'README.entries' file.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>binman: Add support for passing arguments to entries</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T22:30:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-17T19:25:32+00:00</published>
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Sometimes it is useful to pass binman the value of an entry property from
the command line. For example some entries need access to files and it is
not always convenient to put these filenames in the image definition
(device tree).

Add a -a option which can be used like this:

   -a&lt;prop&gt;=&lt;value&gt;

where

   &lt;prop&gt; is the property to set
   &lt;value&gt; is the value to set it to

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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Sometimes it is useful to pass binman the value of an entry property from
the command line. For example some entries need access to files and it is
not always convenient to put these filenames in the image definition
(device tree).

Add a -a option which can be used like this:

   -a&lt;prop&gt;=&lt;value&gt;

where

   &lt;prop&gt; is the property to set
   &lt;value&gt; is the value to set it to

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>binman: Add a new 'image-pos' property</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T22:30:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-01T21:22:42+00:00</published>
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At present each entry has an offset within its parent section. This is
useful for figuring out how entries relate to one another. However it
is sometimes necessary to locate an entry within an image, regardless
of which sections it is nested inside.

Add a new 'image-pos' property to provide this information. Also add
some documentation for the -u option binman provides, which updates the
device tree with final entry information.

Since the image position is a better symbol to use for the position of
U-Boot as obtained by SPL, update the SPL symbols to use this instead of
offset, which might be incorrect if hierarchical sections are used.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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At present each entry has an offset within its parent section. This is
useful for figuring out how entries relate to one another. However it
is sometimes necessary to locate an entry within an image, regardless
of which sections it is nested inside.

Add a new 'image-pos' property to provide this information. Also add
some documentation for the -u option binman provides, which updates the
device tree with final entry information.

Since the image position is a better symbol to use for the position of
U-Boot as obtained by SPL, update the SPL symbols to use this instead of
offset, which might be incorrect if hierarchical sections are used.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>binman: Enhance the map and fdt-update output</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T22:30:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-17T19:25:28+00:00</published>
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At present the .map file produced for each image does not include the
overall image size. This is useful information.

Update the code to generate it in the .map file as well as the updated
FDT. Also fix a few comments while we are here.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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At present the .map file produced for each image does not include the
overall image size. This is useful information.

Update the code to generate it in the .map file as well as the updated
FDT. Also fix a few comments while we are here.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>binman: Rename 'position' to 'offset'</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T22:30:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-01T21:22:37+00:00</published>
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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 = &lt;...&gt;' property. Later work will
adjust binman to generate an error when it is used.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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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 = &lt;...&gt;' property. Later work will
adjust binman to generate an error when it is used.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>binman: Add a SetCalculatedProperties() method</title>
<updated>2018-07-09T15:11:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Glass</name>
<email>sjg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-06T16:27:41+00:00</published>
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Once binman has packed the image, the position and size of each entry is
known. It is then possible for binman to update the device tree with these
positions. Since placeholder values have been added, this does not affect
the size of the device tree and therefore the packing does not need to be
performed again.

Add a new SetCalculatedProperties method to handle this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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Once binman has packed the image, the position and size of each entry is
known. It is then possible for binman to update the device tree with these
positions. Since placeholder values have been added, this does not affect
the size of the device tree and therefore the packing does not need to be
performed again.

Add a new SetCalculatedProperties method to handle this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass &lt;sjg@chromium.org&gt;
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