A discussion on the mailing list about dealing with block offsets and
binman symbols made me think that something is wrong with how Binman
deals with the skip-at-start property.

The feature was originally designed to handle x86 ROMs, which are mapped
at the top of the address space. That seemed too specific, whereas
skipping some space at the start seemed more generally useful.

It has proved useful. For example, rockchip images start at block 64,
so a skip-at-start of 0x8000 deals with this.

But it doesn't actually work correctly, since the image_pos value does
not give the actual position on the media.

Fix this and update the documentation, moving it into the 'section'
section.

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

The patman directory has a number of modules which are used by other tools
in U-Boot. This makes it hard to package the tools using pypi since the
common files must be copied along with the tool that uses them.

To address this, move these files into a new u_boot_pylib library. This
can be packaged separately and listed as a dependency of each tool.

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

Add an entry flag called 'preserve' to indicate that an entry should be
preserved by firmware updates. Propagate this to FMAP too.

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

Convert this file to snake case and update all files which use it.

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

Convert this file to snake case and update all files which use it.

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

When used with hierarchical images, use the Chromium OS convention of
adding a section before all the subentries it contains.

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

We don't need these now that everything uses Python 3. Remove them and
the extra code in GetBytes() and ToBytes() too.

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

It is easier and less error-prone to use super() when the parent type is
needed. Update binman to remove the type names.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>

This reverts commit 5d3a21df6694ebd66d5c34c9d62a26edc7456fc7, reversing
changes made to 56d37f1c564107e27d873181d838571b7d7860e7.

Unfortunately this is causing CI failures:
https://travis-ci.org/github/trini/u-boot/jobs/711313649

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

It is easier and less error-prone to use super() when the parent type is
needed. Update binman to remove the type names.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com>