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diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README index cb47e73599..4ef76c8f08 100644 --- a/tools/binman/README +++ b/tools/binman/README @@ -206,6 +206,27 @@ for its instructions in the 'binman' node. Binman has a few other options which you can see by running 'binman -h'. +Enabling binman for a board +--------------------------- + +At present binman is invoked from a rule in the main Makefile. Typically you +will have a rule like: + +ifneq ($(CONFIG_ARCH_<something>),) +u-boot-<your_suffix>.bin: <input_file_1> <input_file_2> checkbinman FORCE + $(call if_changed,binman) +endif + +This assumes that u-boot-<your_suffix>.bin is a target, and is the final file +that you need to produce. You can make it a target by adding it to ALL-y +either in the main Makefile or in a config.mk file in your arch subdirectory. + +Once binman is executed it will pick up its instructions from a device-tree +file, typically <soc>-u-boot.dtsi, where <soc> is your CONFIG_SYS_SOC value. +You can use other, more specific CONFIG options - see 'Automatic .dtsi +inclusion' below. + + Image description format ------------------------ @@ -446,7 +467,8 @@ If you are having trouble figuring out what is going on, you can uncomment the 'warning' line in scripts/Makefile.lib to see what it has found: # Uncomment for debugging - # $(warning binman_dtsi_options: $(binman_dtsi_options)) + # This shows all the files that were considered and the one that we chose. + # u_boot_dtsi_options_debug = $(u_boot_dtsi_options_raw) Code coverage |