[PATCH v2 1/1] RFC: Move Odroid-C2 to use binman to produce the image

[Mark Kettenis]

> From: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 06:38:19 +1200
> 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 at 19:31, Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong at linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Simon !
> >
> > On 01/04/2023 20:54, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > This shows how binman can be used to replace the long and complicated
> > > instructions with an automated build. It is still complicated to read
> > > but users don't have to worry about the details.
> > >
> > > It needs some tidying up and only supports Odroid-C2 at present.
> >
> > Like the v1, the work is really nice, but the dependency on vendor
> > binary-only tools doesn't make feel confident about merging this.
> 
> So long as we can download it from somewhere, that is OK, or at least
> better than nothing. Is there a standard download location for the
> tools?

The tools are Linux x86-64 only, so...

> > We have open source implementation for all boards, but still dependeing on
> > tools we must manually build isn't optimal.
> >
> > What would be optimal would be to re-implement those tools into python
> > libraries and merge them into the u-boot tree then use them from binman.
> 
> Or C, perhaps? Then binman can call the tools.

...this would be preferable.

> > But this could be merged as first step, them the python libaray could be
> > modified to support the binary tools & a probable python re-implementation.
> 
> Yes I think it would good to get this in, even if it only supports a
> few boards. It is easy to add more, when possible.
> 
> Regards,
> SImon
>