Hi Slew Elly,

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 17:57, Lim, Elly Siew Chin
<elly.siew.chin....@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> > Sent: Friday, January 8, 2021 12:22 AM
> > To: Lim, Elly Siew Chin <elly.siew.chin....@intel.com>
> > Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>; Marek Vasut
> > <ma...@denx.de>; Tan, Ley Foon <ley.foon....@intel.com>; See, Chin Liang
> > <chin.liang....@intel.com>; Simon Goldschmidt
> > <simon.k.r.goldschm...@gmail.com>; Chee, Tien Fong
> > <tien.fong.c...@intel.com>; Westergreen, Dalon
> > <dalon.westergr...@intel.com>; Gan, Yau Wai <yau.wai....@intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [v2 4/6] arm: socfpga: dts: soc64: Update filename in binman 
> > node
> > of FIT image with VAB support
> >
> > Hi Siew Chin,
> >
> > On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 07:13, Lim, Elly Siew Chin 
> > <elly.siew.chin....@intel.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Simon,
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2021 8:37 PM
> > > > To: Lim, Elly Siew Chin <elly.siew.chin....@intel.com>
> > > > Cc: U-Boot Mailing List <u-boot@lists.denx.de>; Marek Vasut
> > > > <ma...@denx.de>; Tan, Ley Foon <ley.foon....@intel.com>; See, Chin
> > > > Liang <chin.liang....@intel.com>; Simon Goldschmidt
> > > > <simon.k.r.goldschm...@gmail.com>; Chee, Tien Fong
> > > > <tien.fong.c...@intel.com>; Westergreen, Dalon
> > > > <dalon.westergr...@intel.com>; Gan, Yau Wai <yau.wai....@intel.com>
> > > > Subject: Re: [v2 4/6] arm: socfpga: dts: soc64: Update filename in
> > > > binman node of FIT image with VAB support
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 at 03:03, Siew Chin Lim
> > > > <elly.siew.chin....@intel.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > FIT image of Vendor Authentication Coot (VAB) contains signed images.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Siew Chin Lim <elly.siew.chin....@intel.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >  arch/arm/dts/socfpga_soc64_fit-u-boot.dtsi | 22
> > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm not quite sure what is happening here, but consider using two
> > > > separate files rather than what looks like a patch over an existing one.
> > > >
> > >
> > > There are two boot flow will use binman (socfpga_soc64_fit-u-boot.dtsi) to
> > generate u-boot.fit and kernel.fit:
> > >     1. socfpga_agilex_atf_defconfig (boot via ATF)
> > >     2. socfpga_agilex_vab_defconfig (boot via ATF with VAB enabled,
> > > support authentication on bl31, u-boot, Linux images)
> > >
> > > The binman node settings are the same for both flows. With VAB enabled, 
> > > all
> > inputs file need to be signed before generate FIT image. We would like to 
> > use
> > different input file name to remind user that they need to sign all bl31, 
> > u-boot,
> > Linux images when using binman to generate FIT image.
> > >
> > > Due to the binman node settings are identical and only the file name need 
> > > to
> > be different, so we prefer to share the same socfpga_soc64_fit-u-boot.dtsi 
> > for
> > both flows.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org>
> >
> > OK I see.
> >
> > Who does the signing of the inputs? Is that something binman could/should 
> > do?
>
> In our case, we will provide user Intel proprietary tools to sign the image, 
> and we have our signature format.
> User need to follow the steps and sign the Images, and call binman to convert 
> into FIT image.
> I think maybe it is not suitable to incorporate any external proprietary 
> tools into binman.

Possibly, although we already have quite a few. Is the tool secret or
can it be downloaded from somewhere? If the latter, see how cbfstool
is handled.

Regards,
Simon

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