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binman: Update help for new features

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A few new features have been added. This has rendered part of the README
obsolete. Update it.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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@ -36,10 +36,9 @@ suitable padding and alignment. It provides a way to process binaries before
they are included, by adding a Python plug-in. The device tree is available
to U-Boot at run-time so that the images can be interpreted.
Binman does not yet update the device tree with the final location of
everything when it is done. A simple C structure could be generated for
constrained environments like SPL (using dtoc) but this is also not
implemented.
Binman can update the device tree with the final location of everything when it
is done. Entry positions can be provided to U-Boot SPL as run-time symbols,
avoiding device-tree code overhead.
Binman can also support incorporating filesystems in the image if required.
For example x86 platforms may use CBFS in some cases.