At present patman sets the python path on startup so that it can access
the libraries it needs. If we convert to use absolute imports this is not
necessary.

Move patman to use absolute imports. This requires changes in tools which
use the patman libraries (which is most of them).

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

This needs special care to ensure that the bytes type is used for
binary data. Add conversion code to deal with strings and bytes
correctly.

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

Normally x86 platforms use the end-at-4gb option. This currently produces
an FMAP with positions which have a large offset. The use of end-at-4gb is
a useful convenience within binman, but we don't really want to export
a map with these offsets.

Fix this by subtracting the 'skip at start' parameter.

Also put the code which convers names to fmap format, for clarity.

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

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 <sjg@chromium.org>