binman: Add support for passing arguments to entries

Sometimes it is useful to pass binman the value of an entry property from
the command line. For example some entries need access to files and it is
not always convenient to put these filenames in the image definition
(device tree).

Add a -a option which can be used like this:

   -a<prop>=<value>

where

   <prop> is the property to set
   <value> is the value to set it to

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/binman/README b/tools/binman/README
index df88819a1c..d60c7fd6a3 100644
--- a/tools/binman/README
+++ b/tools/binman/README
@@ -615,6 +615,26 @@ each entry is also shown, in bytes (hex). The indentation shows the entries
 nested inside their sections.
 
 
+Passing command-line arguments to entries
+-----------------------------------------
+
+Sometimes it is useful to pass binman the value of an entry property from the
+command line. For example some entries need access to files and it is not
+always convenient to put these filenames in the image definition (device tree).
+
+The-a option supports this:
+
+    -a<prop>=<value>
+
+where
+
+    <prop> is the property to set
+    <value> is the value to set it to
+
+Not all properties can be provided this way. Only some entries support it,
+typically for filenames.
+
+
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