This library is meant to be a reference implementation for how firmware can work with ZBI images. The general flow is to load the ZBI image from disk, append some additional items to it at runtime, and then pass control to the kernel image contained within.
Using this library is optional; it's just a convenience wrapper around the ZBI definitions, and firmware is free to write their own wrappers or modify this library as needed. The important thing is adhering to the ZBI ABI as defined in the Zircon sysroot, in particular boot/image.h.
This library is meant specifically for out-of-tree firmware code. Fuchsia code should instead use the in-tree ZBI utilities which are more powerful but have additional dependencies unsuitable for firmware.
In order to be compatible with a wide variety of bootloader toolchains, this library only requires:
uint8_t, int32_t, etc)memcmp(), memcpy())There are no guarantees on the API stability of this library. It's expected that all firmware will have some minimal porting work to do when importing or uprevving this library, which may include adapting to API changes.
Unpack the firmware SDK into your source tree.
Add source files in pkg/libzbi/ to the build.
Find additional header dependencies in arch/<arch>/sysroot/include. This directory can be added to the include search path directly, or you can copy the required headers out and update the libzbi #include paths.