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>
At present if this function tries to update the contents such that the
size changes, it raises an error. We plan to add the ability to change
the size of entries after packing is completed, since in some cases it is
not possible to determine the size in advance.
An example of this is with a compressed device tree, where the values
of the device tree change in SetCalculatedProperties() or
ProcessEntryContents(). While the device tree itself does not change size,
since placeholders for any new properties have already bee added by
AddMissingProperties(), we cannot predict the size of the device tree
after compression. If a value changes from 0 to 0x1234 (say), then the
compressed device tree may expand.
As a first step towards supporting this, make ProcessContentsUpdate()
return a value indicating whether the content size is OK. For now this is
always True (since otherwise binman raises an error), but later patches
will adjust this.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
SetContents() should only be called to set the contents of an entry from
within the ObtainContents() call, since it has no guard against increasing
the size of the contents, thus triggering incorrect operation.
Change all such calls to use ProcessUpdateContents() instead.
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>