On 3/3/26 9:14 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
Hi,
At present binman handles finding/building tools needed to build images.
There is no equivalent mechanism for the firmware blobs themselves.
Users must manually obtain these and point binman at them.
This is quite painful at present. Each board requires some splunking,
reading vendor documentation, etc.
If the pain is in finding/collecting these blobs, then would this be
solved better by having a single location for vendors to host their
blobs?
If we had one repo that we could point BINMAN_DIR to, and the existing
"filename" properties would resolve and produce a working bootloader,
would that fix much of the issue?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz7l9On8qik
Andrew
I believe we could create a similar setup for blobs, where they are
described in the image description (compatible string) and there is a
way to build them, download them, etc.
What do people think?
Regards,
Simon
