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| author | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2022-01-10 06:13:48 +0300 |
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| committer | Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> | 2022-01-25 22:36:11 +0300 |
| commit | 81d6e3f088f799b213b3a4be2b26619c5801e967 (patch) | |
| tree | 54206117a05fe5504ead5203baa7d8afb5ba6a58 /tools | |
| parent | 7f29583113b2d9aeba116183df5a8bc8ae2d86e2 (diff) | |
| download | u-boot-81d6e3f088f799b213b3a4be2b26619c5801e967.tar.xz | |
binman: Add installation instructions
Explain how to install binman, since it is not obvious.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/binman/binman.rst | 27 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/binman/binman.rst b/tools/binman/binman.rst index 3e063d1f86..9dbe582ade 100644 --- a/tools/binman/binman.rst +++ b/tools/binman/binman.rst @@ -185,14 +185,37 @@ Binman is intended to replace all of this, with ifdtool left to handle only the configuration of the Intel-format descriptor. -Running binman --------------- +Installing binman +----------------- First install prerequisites, e.g:: sudo apt-get install python-pyelftools python3-pyelftools lzma-alone \ liblz4-tool +You can run binman directly if you put it on your PATH. But if you want to +install into your `~/.local` Python directory, use:: + + pip install tools/patman tools/dtoc tools/binman + +Note that binman makes use of libraries from patman and dtoc, which is why these +need to be installed. Also you need `libfdt` and `pylibfdt` which can be +installed like this:: + + git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git + cd dtc + pip install . + make NO_PYTHON=1 install + +This installs the `libfdt.so` library into `~/lib` so you can use +`LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/lib` when running binman. If you want to install it in the +system-library directory, replace the last line with:: + + make NO_PYTHON=1 PREFIX=/ install + +Running binman +-------------- + Type:: binman build -b <board_name> |