[PATCH] binman: Fill in most of the imx8mimage and imx8mcst tests

[Simon Glass]

Hi Marek,

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 at 14:27, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
>
> On 2/7/25 1:49 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > Hi Marek,
> >
> > On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 at 13:52, Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2/6/25 1:42 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>>>> FAILED (errors=1)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So where is the SRK_1_2_3_4_table.bin file?
> >>>> See the tool documentation:
> >>>>
> >>>> https://gitlab.apertis.org/pkg/imx-code-signing-tool/-/blob/debian/3.4.0+dfsg-2/docs/CST_UG.pdf?ref_type=tags
> >>>>
> >>>> 3.1.2 Running the hab4_pki_tree script Example
> >>>> 3.1.2.1 Running the hab4_pki_tree script in interactive mode
> >>>>
> >>>> The hab4_pki_tree.sh script should generate all those files.
> >>>
> >>> But with binman we want to avoid vendor scripts, etc.
> >>
> >> I believe the script internally runs openssl to generate that file.
> >>
> >>> Could someone take a look at updating tools/binman/btool/cst.py or
> >>> similar to build the tool from source? There are examples of others
> >>> that do this, e.g. bootgen.py
> >> Is this relevant to finalizing this patch ?
> >
> > Well, I don't see how the tests can pass if we can't build/run the tools needed.
> Maybe you can try to use the shell scripts to generate the missing bin
> file ? I suspect the script does some openssl invocation, which can be
> reproduced in binman ?

But 'binman tool -f <toolname>' is supposed to build/fetch the tool.
So any such building should happen in that bintool.

One of the main goals of binman is to reduce the work needed to create
a working image. If people have to go spelunking around the Internet,
build it themselves, etc. that is not good.

Regards,
Simon