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Building Supporting Tools
Building and using the FIP tool
Firmware Image Package (FIP) is a packaging format used by TF-A to package firmware images in a single binary. The number and type of images that should be packed in a FIP is platform specific and may include TF-A images and other firmware images required by the platform. For example, most platforms require a BL33 image which corresponds to the normal world bootloader (e.g. UEFI or U-Boot).
The TF-A build system provides the make target fip to create a FIP file for the specified platform using the FIP creation tool included in the TF-A project. Examples below show how to build a FIP file for FVP, packaging TF-A and BL33 images.
For AArch64:
make PLAT=fvp BL33=<path-to>/bl33.bin fip
For AArch32:
make PLAT=fvp ARCH=aarch32 AARCH32_SP=sp_min BL33=<path-to>/bl33.bin fip
The resulting FIP may be found in:
build/fvp/<build-type>/fip.bin
For advanced operations on FIP files, it is also possible to independently build the tool and create or modify FIPs using this tool. To do this, follow these steps:
It is recommended to remove old artifacts before building the tool:
make -C tools/fiptool clean
Build the tool:
make [DEBUG=1] [V=1] fiptool
The tool binary can be located in:
./tools/fiptool/fiptool
Invoking the tool with help will print a help message with all available options.
Example 1: create a new Firmware package fip.bin that contains BL2 and BL31:
./tools/fiptool/fiptool create \ --tb-fw build/<platform>/<build-type>/bl2.bin \ --soc-fw build/<platform>/<build-type>/bl31.bin \ fip.bin
Example 2: view the contents of an existing Firmware package:
./tools/fiptool/fiptool info <path-to>/fip.bin
Example 3: update the entries of an existing Firmware package:
# Change the BL2 from Debug to Release version ./tools/fiptool/fiptool update \ --tb-fw build/<platform>/release/bl2.bin \ build/<platform>/debug/fip.bin
Example 4: unpack all entries from an existing Firmware package:
# Images will be unpacked to the working directory ./tools/fiptool/fiptool unpack <path-to>/fip.bin
Example 5: remove an entry from an existing Firmware package:
./tools/fiptool/fiptool remove \ --tb-fw build/<platform>/debug/fip.bin
Note that if the destination FIP file exists, the create, update and remove operations will automatically overwrite it.
The unpack operation will fail if the images already exist at the destination. In that case, use -f or --force to continue.
More information about FIP can be found in the :ref:`Firmware Design` document.
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The cert_create tool is built as part of the TF-A build process when the fip make target is specified and TBB is enabled (as described in the previous section), but it can also be built separately with the following command:
make PLAT=<platform> [DEBUG=1] [V=1] certtool
For platforms that require their own IDs in certificate files, the generic 'cert_create' tool can be built with the following command. Note that the target platform must define its IDs within a platform_oid.h header file for the build to succeed.
make PLAT=<platform> USE_TBBR_DEFS=0 [DEBUG=1] [V=1] certtool
DEBUG=1 builds the tool in debug mode. V=1 makes the build process more verbose. The following command should be used to obtain help about the tool:
./tools/cert_create/cert_create -h
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