Binman and blobs

[Andrew Davis]

On 3/3/26 9:14 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At present binman handles finding/building tools needed to build images.
> 
> There is no equivalent mechanism for the firmware blobs themselves.
> Users must manually obtain these and point binman at them.
> 
> This is quite painful at present. Each board requires some splunking,
> reading vendor documentation, etc.
> 

If the pain is in finding/collecting these blobs, then would this be
solved better by having a single location for vendors to host their
blobs?

If we had one repo that we could point BINMAN_DIR to, and the existing
"filename" properties would resolve and produce a working bootloader,
would that fix much of the issue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz7l9On8qik

Andrew

> I believe we could create a similar setup for blobs, where they are
> described in the image description (compatible string) and there is a
> way to build them, download them, etc.
> 
> What do people think?
> 
> Regards,
> Simon