Extend binman to generate boot headers

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Peng,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 5:45 AM Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am thinking to extend binman to generate i.MX container
> header and IVT header, that means to replace mkimage to generate header.
>
> There is an NXP downstream imx-mkimage that diverge from upstream that
> double effort. There are still require quite effort to migrate downstream
> imx-mkimage to upstream. But the good news is that we are trying binman
> in imx-mkimage to pack images. So if we could support binman to generate
> container/IVT headers, NXP downstream and upstream will align the effort
> to focus on binman, not a diverge imx-mkimage.
>
> How do you think?

The idea seems good to me.

Could you please post a series showing the implementation?

Thanks