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

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 16 January 2017 at 13:25, Jörg Krause <joerg.krause at embedded.rocks> wrote:
> 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?

Yes that would be good...

Regards,
Simon