Sometimes it is useful to build an image even though external binaries are not present. This allows the build system to continue to function without these files, albeit not producing valid images.
U-Boot does with with ATF (ARM Trusted Firmware) today.
Add a new flag to binman to request this behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass sjg@chromium.org Reviewed-by: Bin Meng bmeng.cn@gmail.com ---
Changes in v3: - Move the SetAllowMissing() function into this patch - Keep the _allow_missing property to sections only
tools/binman/README.entries | 3 +++ tools/binman/cmdline.py | 2 ++ tools/binman/control.py | 7 +++++-- tools/binman/entry.py | 9 +++++++++ tools/binman/etype/blob_ext.py | 13 ++++++++++--- tools/binman/etype/section.py | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/binman/ftest.py | 8 +++++++- tools/patman/tools.py | 8 ++++++-- 8 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Applied to u-boot-dm