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| author | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2019-07-08 14:25:37 -0600 |
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| committer | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2019-07-24 12:54:08 -0700 |
| commit | c52c9e7da809e36001d125891e594c4740235055 (patch) | |
| tree | b2a206a5487a5cd7b156659e2358ccf0ccc92f98 /tools/binman/README | |
| parent | bf6906bab4129660a74639e3fafb463917778d2b (diff) | |
| download | u-boot-c52c9e7da809e36001d125891e594c4740235055.tar.gz | |
binman: Allow entries to expand after packing
Add support for detecting entries that change size after they have already
been packed, and re-running packing when it happens.
This removes the limitation that entry size cannot change after
PackEntries() is called.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/binman/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/binman/README | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README index abbf809b82..9860633792 100644 --- a/tools/binman/README +++ b/tools/binman/README @@ -566,7 +566,8 @@ tree. This sets the correct 'offset' and 'size' vaues, for example. The default implementatoin does nothing. This can be overriden to adjust the contents of an entry in some way. For example, it would be possible to create an entry containing a hash of the contents of some other entries. At this -stage the offset and size of entries should not be adjusted. +stage the offset and size of entries should not be adjusted unless absolutely +necessary, since it requires a repack (going back to PackEntries()). 10. WriteSymbols() - write the value of symbols into the U-Boot SPL binary. See 'Access to binman entry offsets at run time' below for a description of |