Hi, On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 at 20:03, Andrew Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/3/26 9:14 AM, Simon Glass wrote: > > Hi, > > > > At present binman handles finding/building tools needed to build images. > > > > There is no equivalent mechanism for the firmware blobs themselves. > > Users must manually obtain these and point binman at them. > > > > This is quite painful at present. Each board requires some splunking, > > reading vendor documentation, etc. > > > > If the pain is in finding/collecting these blobs, then would this be > solved better by having a single location for vendors to host their > blobs? > > If we had one repo that we could point BINMAN_DIR to, and the existing > "filename" properties would resolve and produce a working bootloader, > would that fix much of the issue? > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz7l9On8qik
I definitely like the idea of having a shared repo, but who would run it? I've implemented blobs in Binman just recently and it is definitely better that hunting about for how to build all the blobs yourself. I did set up a blob server as a test but I'm not sure it is ready for prime time. Also I haven't yet integrated the new 'binman blog' into U-Boot. Regards, Simon > > Andrew > > > I believe we could create a similar setup for blobs, where they are > > described in the image description (compatible string) and there is a > > way to build them, download them, etc. > > > > What do people think? > > > > Regards, > > Simon >
