When packing files it is sometimes useful to align the start of each file,
e.g. if the flash driver can only access 32-bit-aligned data. Provides a
new property to support this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present we use 'compress' as the property to set the compression of
a 'files' entry. But this conflicts with the same property for entries,
of which Entry_section is a subclass.
Strictly speaking, since Entry_files is in fact a subclass of
Entry_section, the files can be compressed individually but also the
section (that contains all the files) can itself be compressed. With this
change, it is possible to express that.
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>
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>
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>
At present binman 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 binman to use absolute imports. This enables removable of the path
adjusting in Entry also.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
At present if libfdt is not available binman can't do anything much.
Improve the situation a little.
Ideally there should be a test to cover this, but I'm not quite sure how
to fake this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
(fixed up missing ReadChildData() enty test)
When support for sections (and thus hierarchical images) was added to
binman, the decision was made to create a new Section class which could
be used by both Image and an Entry_section class. The decision between
using inheritance and composition was tricky to make, but in the end it
was decided that Image was different enough from Entry that it made sense
to put the implementation of sections in an entirely separate class. It
also has the advantage that core Image code does have to rely on an entry
class in the etype directory.
This work was mostly completed in commit:
8f1da50ccc "binman: Refactor much of the image code into 'section'
As a result of this, the Section class has its own version of things like
offset and size and these must be kept in sync with the parent
Entry_section class in some cases.
In the last year it has become apparent that the cost of keeping things in
sync is larger than expected, since more and more code wants to access
these properties.
An alternative approach, previously considered and rejected, now seems
better.
Adjust Image to be a subclass of Entry_section. Move the code from Section
(in bsection.py) to Entry_section and delete Section. Update all tests
accordingly.
This requires substantial changes to Image. Overall the changes reduce
code size by about 240 lines. While much of that is just boilerplate from
Section, there are quite a few functions in Entry_section which now do not
need to be overiden from Entry. This suggests the change is beneficial
even without further functionality being added.
A side benefit is that the properties of sections are now consistent with
other entries. This fixes a problem in testListCmd() where some properties
are missing for sections.
Unfortunately this is a very large commit since it is not feasible to do
the migration piecemeal. Given the substantial tests available and the
100% code coverage of binman, we should be able to do this safely.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
In some cases it is useful to add a group of files to the image and be
able to access them at run-time. Of course it is possible to generate
the binman config file with a set of blobs each with a filename. But for
convenience, add an entry type which can do this.
Add required support (for adding nodes and string properties) into the
state module.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
