> From: Simon Glass <s...@chromium.org> > Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 06:38:19 +1200 > > 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?
The tools are Linux x86-64 only, so... > > 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. ...this would be preferable. > > 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 >
