tool: Add docs to partition_table

Co-authored-by: Mikael Ågren <mikael@tillitis.se>
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# partition\_table
A tool to parse or generate partition table or entire filesystems for
the TKey.
- Parse with `-i file.bin` for "input".
- Generate with `-o file.bin` for "output".
Add `-f` to parse or generate an entire flash image file.
## Usage
### Inspect a partition table dump
Dump the entire data from flash, then inspect:
```
$ tillitis-iceprog -R 1M dump.bin
$ ./partition_table -i dump.bin -f
INFO: main.Flash struct is 1048576 byte long
Partition Table Storage
Partition Table
Header
Version : 1
Preloaded App 0
Size : 23796
Digest : 00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
Signature : 00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
Preloaded App 1
Size : 264
Digest : 96bb4c90603dbbbe09b9a1d7259b5e9e
61bedd89a897105c30c9d4bf66a98d97
Signature : ccb60c034e559b8c695f25233b80c245
e099316324e1a4e68a14c82d834eee58
5700cd5c29b64e74159a4dbf3fed030a
140e981fb3b6972c125afb4d4497da0a
Digest : 4628f142764f724e45e05b20363960967705cfcee8285b2d9d207e04a46e275e
```
Read only the first copy of the partition table from flash to file,
then inspect:
```
$ tillitis-iceprog -o 128k -r partition.bin
$ ./partition_table -i partition.bin
INFO: main.PartTableStorage struct is 365 byte long
Partition Table Storage
Partition Table
Header
Version : 1
Preloaded App 0
Size : 23796
Digest : 00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
Signature : 00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
Preloaded App 1
Size : 0
Digest : 00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
Signature : 00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000000000
Digest : 40c6dbb4c8fda561369ec54a907452ae352ccbd736ba7824c4e173fd438b7d7a
```
### Generate a partition table
If you want to generate just a partition table:
```
$ ./partition_table -o partition.bin
```
With an app in slot 0, filling in the size in the partition table:
```
$ ./partition_table -o partition.bin -app0 ../../fw/testloadapp/testloadapp.bin
```
### Generate flash image
The program can also generate an entire flash image for use either
with real hardware or qemu.
Generate like this:
```
$ ./partition_table -o flash.bin -f -app0 ../../fw/testloadapp/testloadapp.bin
```
Using `-app0` is mandatory because TKey firmware won't start without
an app in slot 0.
The qemu args to use to run with `flash.bin` as the flash are:
```
-drive file=flash.bin,if=mtd,format=raw,index=0
```
A complete command example:
```
$ qemu-system-riscv32 -nographic -M tk1-castor,fifo=chrid \
-bios qemu_firmware.elf -chardev pty,id=chrid -s -d guest_errors \
-drive file=flash.bin,if=mtd,format=raw,index=0
```