[BUG] binman: Add a library to access binman entries

[Simon Glass]

Hi Frank,

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 11:15, Frank Wunderlich <frank-w at public-files.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> a bit more info about this...

Sorry for the delay. Stephen hit this also.

>
> this line [1] (in my case) breaks the init-chain:
>
> return log_msg_ret("binman node", -EINVAL);
>
> the binman_init [2] is added to init_sequence_r[] which is executed by initcall_run_list
>
> ./common/board_r.c:897: if (initcall_run_list(init_sequence_r))
>
> exiting the binman-function [3] with error-code (return <> 0) exits the full chain (./include/initcall.h) [4] with message
>
> initcall sequence %p failed at call %p
>
> how to deal with this?
>
> - do not select binman as default=y in Kconfig

Where is it selected by default?

bpi-r64 uses binman to build its image so I think BINMAN is on.

> - adding the binman-node [1] to all dts

Yes, but in fact it should already be there. I see in the Makefile
that 64-bit sunxi uses 'cat' instead of 'binman'. It should use
binman.

> - do not exit with error-code (only print/log message)

Not keen on that

> - do not exit the init-sequence on binman-error [3]

or that

> - more ideas?

Let's convert bpi-64 as above.

>
> in our case we disabled option CONFIG_BINMAN_FDT [5]
>
> regards Frank
>
> [1] https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/lib/binman.c#L45
> [2] https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/common/board_r.c#L722
> [3] https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/common/board_r.c#L369
> [4] https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/include/initcall.h#L42
>
> [5] http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-r64-current-u-boot-support/10077/69
>

Regards,
Simon