binman: Support missing compression tools

Handle missing compression tools by returning empty data and record
missing bintool.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Herbrechtsmeier <stefan.herbrechtsmeier@weidmueller.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/binman/ftest.py b/tools/binman/ftest.py
index 4be84f6e17f..81ecc8829f9 100644
--- a/tools/binman/ftest.py
+++ b/tools/binman/ftest.py
@@ -4422,6 +4422,15 @@ class TestFunctional(unittest.TestCase):
             }
         self.assertEqual(expected, props)
 
+    def testLz4Missing(self):
+        """Test that binman still produces an image if lz4 is missing"""
+        with test_util.capture_sys_output() as (_, stderr):
+            self._DoTestFile('185_compress_section.dts',
+                             force_missing_bintools='lz4')
+        err = stderr.getvalue()
+        self.assertRegex(err,
+                         "Image 'main-section'.*missing bintools.*: lz4")
+
     def testCompressExtra(self):
         """Test compression of a section with no fixed size"""
         self._CheckLz4()