[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 03/31] binman: Update help for new features

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Jul 8 20:25:25 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>
---

Changes in v2: None

 tools/binman/README | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README
index 1851a4e536d..b067d3b78cf 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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