[PATCH 00/11] binman: Enhancements to expanded entries

[Simon Glass]

At present it is not always possible to have an expanded entry as a
sibling of another node. This limitation applies in most situations where
the other node has properties which binman must update, or when other
nodes appear after the expanded entry. An example is a 'hash' node in
the same section as an expanding node, since binman must update the hash
node with the hash of the expanding node, but it cannot do this while
also inserting the expanding node.

These limitations are mostly to do with how the fdt library worked (the one
provided by dtoc). This library still uses pylibfdt directly. At some
point it would be nice to have a hierarchical (live-tree) implementation
in pylibfdt (and therefore libfdt), but this does not exist at present. It
would simplify the code in the fdt library.

This series takes the support for expanded entries a little further, allow
them to be used in nearly any situation.

Where expanded entries are not wanted in a paricular case, a new
'no-expanded' property can be used.

Another problem found in the real world is that some systems require a
particular alignment for entries. For example, Intel chips struggle to
read data from SPI flash unless it is word-aligned. This series provides
a way to specify the default alignment for all the entries in a section,
to avoid the tedium of putting this in every single entry.

Finally, the vblock implementation includes code to collect the contents of
other entries, as specified by a phandle. It happens that this doesn't work
if one of the entries is a section, e.g. an expanding entry, since (for
efficiency reasons) binman currently only calculates section contents when
performing final image assembly. This series removes this limitation. It
also creates a new 'collection' entry type, to serve as a base class for
vblock, since it is likely that this functionality will be useful for other
entry types.


Simon Glass (11):
  binman: Use a unique number for the symbols test file
  binman: Allow disabling expanding an entry
  binman: Add support for a collection of entries
  binman: Support obtaining section contents immediately
  binman: Support default alignment for sections
  dtoc: Improve internal error for Refresh()
  dtoc: Tidy up property-offset handling
  dtoc: Tweak ordering of fdt-offsets refreshing
  dtoc: Add a subnode test for multiple nodes
  dtoc: Support adding subnodes alongside existing ones
  dtoc: Add new check that offsets are correct

 tools/binman/binman.rst                       | 14 +++
 tools/binman/entries.rst                      | 21 ++++-
 tools/binman/entry.py                         | 16 +++-
 tools/binman/etype/cbfs.py                    |  1 +
 tools/binman/etype/collection.py              | 67 ++++++++++++++
 tools/binman/etype/mkimage.py                 |  1 +
 tools/binman/etype/section.py                 | 36 ++++++--
 tools/binman/etype/u_boot.py                  |  2 +-
 tools/binman/etype/u_boot_spl.py              |  2 +-
 tools/binman/etype/u_boot_tpl.py              |  2 +-
 tools/binman/etype/vblock.py                  | 36 ++++----
 tools/binman/ftest.py                         | 57 +++++++++++-
 ...ymbols_nodtb.dts => 196_symbols_nodtb.dts} |  0
 tools/binman/test/197_symbols_expand.dts      | 23 +++++
 tools/binman/test/198_collection.dts          | 27 ++++++
 tools/binman/test/199_collection_section.dts  | 32 +++++++
 tools/binman/test/200_align_default.dts       | 30 ++++++
 tools/dtoc/fdt.py                             | 92 +++++++++++++++----
 tools/dtoc/test/dtoc_test_simple.dts          |  4 +
 tools/dtoc/test_fdt.py                        | 76 ++++++++++++---
 20 files changed, 470 insertions(+), 69 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/binman/etype/collection.py
 rename tools/binman/test/{192_symbols_nodtb.dts => 196_symbols_nodtb.dts} (100%)
 create mode 100644 tools/binman/test/197_symbols_expand.dts
 create mode 100644 tools/binman/test/198_collection.dts
 create mode 100644 tools/binman/test/199_collection_section.dts
 create mode 100644 tools/binman/test/200_align_default.dts

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