Merge branch '2022-10-31-vbe-implement-the-full-firmware-flow'

To quote Simon:
This series provides an implementation of VBE from TPL through to U-Boot
proper, using VBE to load the relevant firmware stages. It buils a single
image.bin file containing all the phases:

   TPL - initial phase, loads VPL using binman symbols
   VPL - main firmware phase, loads SPL using VBE parameters
   SPL - loads U-Boot proper using VBE parameters
   U-Boot - final firmware phase, where OS booting is processed

This series does not include the OS-booting phase. That will be the
subject of a future series.

The implementation is entirely handled by sandbox. It should be possible
to enable this on a real board without much effort, but that is also the
subject of a future series.

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diff --git a/doc/develop/tests_writing.rst b/doc/develop/tests_writing.rst
index 1ddf7a353a7..bb1145da268 100644
--- a/doc/develop/tests_writing.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/tests_writing.rst
@@ -74,6 +74,33 @@ NOT rely on running with sandbox, but instead should function correctly on any
 board supported by U-Boot.
 
 
+Mixing Python and C
+-------------------
+
+The best of both worlds is sometimes to have a Python test set things up and
+perform some operations, with a 'checker' C unit test doing the checks
+afterwards. This can be achieved with these steps:
+
+- Add the `UT_TESTF_MANUAL` flag to the checker test so that the `ut` command
+  does not run it by default
+- Add a `_norun` suffix to the name so that pytest knows to skip it too
+
+In your Python test use the `-f` flag to the `ut` command to force the checker
+test to run it, e.g.::
+
+   # Do the Python part
+   host load ...
+   bootm ...
+
+   # Run the checker to make sure that everything worked
+   ut -f bootstd vbe_test_fixup_norun
+
+Note that apart from the `UT_TESTF_MANUAL` flag, the code in a 'manual' C test
+is just like any other C test. It still uses ut_assert...() and other such
+constructs, in this case to check that the expected things happened in the
+Python test.
+
+
 How slow are Python tests?
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