I've been automating the process in doc/README.chromium-chainload and while experimenting with whether a "kernel" image with u-boot-spl and u-boot would work, noticed I couldn't align/offset/pad the two parts.
E.g. in something like the following, binman doesn't add the necessary padding to place the "u-boot" to the correct offset within the "kernel-1" data: fit { description = "example"; images { kernel-1 { description = "U-Boot with SPL"; type = "kernel"; arch = "arm64"; os = "linux"; compression = "none"; u-boot-spl { }; u-boot { offset = <CONFIG_SPL_PAD_TO>; }; }; }; }; Not sure if that'll ever be really necessary besides my experiment, but it doesn't seem like skipping the padding was a deliberate choice, so here are some fixes I wrote for that. Changes in v2: - Add test to check that sections ignore hash*, signature* nodes - Move section padding test to the end of file - Renumber tests to accommodate for the first patch's new test - Use 'section' instead of 'image' for FIT subimage sections - Also rename 'Members:' comment for the renamed _fit_content variable - Clarify comments around FIT subimage section/content processing - Don't check for section.ObtainContents() returning False (never does) v1: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/?series=197693 Alper Nebi Yasak (3): binman: Ignore hash*, signature* nodes in sections binman: Respect pad-before property of section subentries binman: Build FIT image subentries with the section etype tools/binman/etype/fit.py | 41 +++++++------ tools/binman/etype/section.py | 4 +- tools/binman/ftest.py | 37 ++++++++++++ .../165_section_ignore_hash_signature.dts | 40 +++++++++++++ tools/binman/test/166_pad_in_sections.dts | 26 +++++++++ .../test/167_fit_image_subentry_alignment.dts | 57 +++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/binman/test/165_section_ignore_hash_signature.dts create mode 100644 tools/binman/test/166_pad_in_sections.dts create mode 100644 tools/binman/test/167_fit_image_subentry_alignment.dts -- 2.28.0