Hi Neil, On Mon, 3 Apr 2023 at 19:31, Neil Armstrong <neil.armstr...@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
