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diff --git a/tools/binman/binman.rst b/tools/binman/binman.rst index 09e7b57198..614df541c5 100644 --- a/tools/binman/binman.rst +++ b/tools/binman/binman.rst @@ -232,18 +232,18 @@ You can use other, more specific CONFIG options - see 'Automatic .dtsi inclusion' below. -Using binman with OF_BOARD or OF_PRIOR_STAGE +Using binman with OF_BOARD -------------------------------------------- Normally binman is used with a board configured with OF_SEPARATE or OF_EMBED. This is a typical scenario where a device tree source that contains the binman node is provided in the arch/<arch>/dts directory for a specific board. -However for a board configured with OF_BOARD or OF_PRIOR_STAGE, no device tree -blob is provided in the U-Boot build phase hence the binman node information -is not available. In order to support such use case, a new Kconfig option -BINMAN_STANDALONE_FDT is introduced, to tell the build system that a standalone -device tree blob containing binman node is explicitly required. +However for a board configured with OF_BOARD, no device tree blob is provided +in the U-Boot build phase hence the binman node information is not available. +In order to support such use case, a new Kconfig option BINMAN_STANDALONE_FDT +is introduced, to tell the build system that a standalone device tree blob +containing binman node is explicitly required. Note there is a Kconfig option BINMAN_FDT which enables U-Boot run time to access information about binman entries, stored in the device tree in a binman @@ -252,10 +252,6 @@ For the other OF_CONTROL methods, it's quite possible binman node is not available as binman is invoked during the build phase, thus this option is not turned on by default for these OF_CONTROL methods. -See qemu-riscv64_spl_defconfig for an example of how binman is used with -OF_PRIOR_STAGE to generate u-boot.itb image. - - Access to binman entry offsets at run time (symbols) ---------------------------------------------------- |