u-boot-brain/tools/binman/etype/fill.py
Simon Glass 3af8e49cef binman: Add an entry filled with a repeating byte
It is sometimes useful to have an area of the image which is all zeroes,
or all 0xff. This can often be achieved by padding the size of an an
existing entry and setting the pad byte for an entry or image.

But it is useful to have an explicit means of adding blocks of repeating
data to the image. Add a 'fill' entry type to handle this.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
2018-08-01 16:30:48 -06:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
# Copyright (c) 2018 Google, Inc
# Written by Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
#
from entry import Entry
import fdt_util
class Entry_fill(Entry):
"""An entry which is filled to a particular byte value
Properties / Entry arguments:
- fill-byte: Byte to use to fill the entry
Note that the size property must be set since otherwise this entry does not
know how large it should be.
You can often achieve the same effect using the pad-byte property of the
overall image, in that the space between entries will then be padded with
that byte. But this entry is sometimes useful for explicitly setting the
byte value of a region.
"""
def __init__(self, section, etype, node):
Entry.__init__(self, section, etype, node)
if not self.size:
self.Raise("'fill' entry must have a size property")
self.fill_value = fdt_util.GetByte(self._node, 'fill-byte', 0)
def ObtainContents(self):
self.SetContents(chr(self.fill_value) * self.size)
return True