From: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 01:55:05 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: binman: Add documentation for the symbol feature
X-Git-Url: http://git.dujemihanovic.xyz/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=39c1502ccc49cc5e9ef799ca56c6fa66c8863504;p=u-boot.git

binman: Add documentation for the symbol feature

Add this feature to the README.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de>
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diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README
index 4ef76c8f08..08c3e56bde 100644
--- a/tools/binman/README
+++ b/tools/binman/README
@@ -439,6 +439,8 @@ contents of an entry in some way. For example, it would be possible to create
 an entry containing a hash of the contents of some other entries. At this
 stage the position and size of entries should not be adjusted.
 
+6. WriteEntryInfo()
+
 7. BuildImage() - builds the image and writes it to a file. This is the final
 step.
 
@@ -471,6 +473,33 @@ the 'warning' line in scripts/Makefile.lib to see what it has found:
    # u_boot_dtsi_options_debug = $(u_boot_dtsi_options_raw)
 
 
+Access to binman entry positions at run time
+--------------------------------------------
+
+Binman assembles images and determines where each entry is placed in the image.
+This information may be useful to U-Boot at run time. For example, in SPL it
+is useful to be able to find the location of U-Boot so that it can be executed
+when SPL is finished.
+
+Binman allows you to declare symbols in the SPL image which are filled in
+with their correct values during the build. For example:
+
+    binman_sym_declare(ulong, u_boot_any, pos);
+
+declares a ulong value which will be assigned to the position of any U-Boot
+image (u-boot.bin, u-boot.img, u-boot-nodtb.bin) that is present in the image.
+You can access this value with something like:
+
+    ulong u_boot_pos = binman_sym(ulong, u_boot_any, pos);
+
+Thus u_boot_pos will be set to the position of U-Boot in memory, assuming that
+the whole image has been loaded, or is available in flash. You can then jump to
+that address to start U-Boot.
+
+At present this feature is only supported in SPL. In principle it is possible
+to fill in such symbols in U-Boot proper, as well.
+
+
 Code coverage
 -------------
 
@@ -543,7 +572,8 @@ To do
 
 Some ideas:
 - Fill out the device tree to include the final position and size of each
-  entry (since the input file may not always specify these)
+  entry (since the input file may not always specify these). See also
+  'Access to binman entry positions at run time' above
 - Use of-platdata to make the information available to code that is unable
   to use device tree (such as a very small SPL image)
 - Write an image map to a text file