[U-Boot] [PATCH v6 01/13] binman: Introduce binman, a tool for building binary images

[Jörg Krause]

Hi,

On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 20:15 -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> This adds the basic code for binman, including command parsing,
> processing
> of entries and generation of images.
> 
> So far no entry types are supported. These will be added in future
> commits
> as examples of how to add new types.
> 
> See the README for documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
> 

[snip]

> +
> +To do
> +-----
> +
> +Some ideas:
> +- Fill out the device tree to include the final position and size of
> each
> +  entry (since the input file may not always specify these)
> +- Use of-platdata to make the information available to code that is
> unable
> +  to use device tree (such as a very small SPL image)
> +- Write an image map to a text file
> +- Allow easy building of images by specifying just the board name
> +- Produce a full Python binding for libfdt (for upstream)
> +- Add an option to decode an image into the constituent binaries
> +- Suppoort hierarchical images (packing of binaries into another
> binary
> +  which is then placed in the image)
> +- Support building an image for a board (-b) more completely, with a
> +  configurable build directory
> +- Consider making binman work with buildman, although if it is used
> in the
> +  Makefile, this will be automatic
> +- Implement align-end

Any plans to add support for Python 3 as it is done for patman?

Best regards,
Jörg Krause