[PATCH v7 00/23] Migration to using binman for bootloader

Jerome Forissier jerome.forissier at linaro.org
Fri Jul 14 16:07:57 CEST 2023



On 7/14/23 15:50, Neha Malcom Francis wrote:
> This series aims to eliminate the use of additional custom repositories
> such as k3-image-gen (K3 Image Generation) repo and core-secdev-k3 (K3
> Security Development Tools) that was plumbed into the U-Boot build flow
> to generate boot images for TI K3 platform devices. And instead, we move
> towards using binman that aligns better with the community standard build
> flow.
> 
> This series uses binman for all K3 platforms supported on U-Boot currently;
> both HS (High Security, both SE and FS) and GP (General Purpose) devices.
> 
> Background on using k3-image-gen:
> 	* TI K3 devices require a SYSFW (System Firmware) image consisting
> 	of a signed system firmware image and board configuration binaries,
> 	this is needed to bring up system firmware during U-Boot R5 SPL
> 	startup.
> 	* Board configuration data contain board-specific information
> 	such as resource management, power management and security.
> 
> Background on using core-secdev-k3:
> 	* Contains resources to sign x509 certificates for HS devices
> 
> Series intends to use binman to take over the packaging and signing for
> the R5 bootloader images tiboot3.bin (and sysfw.itb, for non-combined
> boot flow) instead of k3-image-gen.
> 
> Series also packages the A72/A53 bootloader images (tispl.bin and
> u-boot.img) using ATF, OPTEE and DM (Device Manager)
> 
> Changes in v7:
> 	- corrected Texas Instruments copyright year
> 	- k3-am65-iot2050 image fit at 0x180000 filename retained as
> 	  tispl.bin
> 
> Changes in v6:
> 	- addressed whitespace warnings
> 	- added testcase for overwriting symlink functionality
> 	- %s/Arm Trusted Firmware/Trusted Firmware-A
> 	- %s/tee-pager_v2.bin/tee-raw.bin

I can still find quite a few occurrences of tee-pager_v2.bin in the patch
set (and in v7 too). Did you forget to change?

Another note applicable to several patches in v7:
'description = "OPTEE"' should be
'description = "OP-TEE"' (the official spelling has a hyphen). 

-- 
Jerome


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