Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] binman: fit: document how ELF load addresses are determined

On 2026-07-31T00:13:34, Aristo Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> binman: fit: document how ELF load addresses are determined
>
> The fit,load property confuses users because the load address is
> taken from the ELF file rather than being specified in the binman
> node. Document how to inspect an ELF file to find out where its
> segments will be loaded, using readelf, the linker script or objdump,
> and point at the elf_sections and elf_sections_tee test linker
> scripts as examples of two components placed to avoid overlapping
> memory. Also note that the mkimage load address overlap check works
> on packaged data sizes and therefore assumes uncompressed images.
>
> Compared to the previously applied version of this change, the text
> now lives in the fit etype docstring. The entry documentation is
> produced from docstrings by the binman_docs Sphinx extension at
> documentation build time, so no pre-generated file needs updating.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aristo Chen <[email protected]>
>
> tools/binman/etype/fit.py | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <[email protected]>