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

[Simon Glass]

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?

>
> 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.

>
> 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