binman: Allow reading an entry from an image

It is useful to be able to extract entry contents from an image to see
what is inside. Add a simple function to read the contents of an entry,
decompressing it by default.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/binman/entry.py b/tools/binman/entry.py
index 33d3f1e4d4..1c382f3b85 100644
--- a/tools/binman/entry.py
+++ b/tools/binman/entry.py
@@ -659,3 +659,24 @@ features to produce new behaviours.
         """
         self.AddEntryInfo(entries, indent, self.name, self.etype, self.size,
                           self.image_pos, self.uncomp_size, self.offset, self)
+
+    def ReadData(self, decomp=True):
+        """Read the data for an entry from the image
+
+        This is used when the image has been read in and we want to extract the
+        data for a particular entry from that image.
+
+        Args:
+            decomp: True to decompress any compressed data before returning it;
+                False to return the raw, uncompressed data
+
+        Returns:
+            Entry data (bytes)
+        """
+        # Use True here so that we get an uncompressed section to work from,
+        # although compressed sections are currently not supported
+        data = self.section.ReadData(True)
+        tout.Info('%s: Reading data from offset %#x-%#x, size %#x (avail %#x)' %
+                  (self.GetPath(), self.offset, self.offset + self.size,
+                   self.size, len(data)))
+        return data[self.offset:self.offset + self.size]