[U-Boot] [PATCH 03/26] binman: Update help for new features
Simon Glass
sjg at chromium.org
Tue Jul 2 00:24:32 UTC 2019
A few new features have been added. This has rendered part of the README
obsolete. Update it.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---
tools/binman/README | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README
index 92341a14b61..f07de350f60 100644
--- a/tools/binman/README
+++ b/tools/binman/README
@@ -36,10 +36,9 @@ suitable padding and alignment. It provides a way to process binaries before
they are included, by adding a Python plug-in. The device tree is available
to U-Boot at run-time so that the images can be interpreted.
-Binman does not yet update the device tree with the final location of
-everything when it is done. A simple C structure could be generated for
-constrained environments like SPL (using dtoc) but this is also not
-implemented.
+Binman can update the device tree with the final location of everything when it
+is done. Entry positions can be provided to U-Boot SPL as run-time symbols,
+avoiding device-tree code overhead.
Binman can also support incorporating filesystems in the image if required.
For example x86 platforms may use CBFS in some cases.
--
2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog
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