[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/13] binman: Support run-time access to binman image positions

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On 13 November 2017 at 18:54, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Binman construct images consisting of multiple binary files. These files
> sometimes need to know (at run timme) where their peers are located. For
> example, SPL may want to know where U-Boot is located in the image, so
> that it can jump to U-Boot correctly on boot.
>
> This series implements this, allowing binaries within the image to become
> aware of each other without any significant run-time overhead.
>
> It can be used for:
>    - SPL jumping to the correct location for U-Boot
>    - SPL finding an FPGA image to program
>    - U-Boot locating some configuration data (e.g. serial #) in the image
>
> A way to handle this with binman was requested by Marek Vasut some weeks
> ago.
>
> As a demonstration, this converts Tegra to use binman to find U-Boot from
> within SPL.

Are there any more comments on this please? I plan to tidy up the
Tegra comments and send v2.

Regards,
Simon