Marian Balakowicz wrote: [...]
- 'New image' format must support the following features:
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- 'container' image blob shall include 'component' images' data, which means direct data embedding - as opposed to having only references
Q for Jon L: This would require an extension to the dtc to "include" a raw file into the blob? I'm presuming that we don't want to take a binary (ELF) file, turn it into ASCII bytes, include it into a dts, and then use dtc to compile it back into binary.
Am I missing something that is already available? Do you see any problems with extending dtc to support this?
AFAIK dtc currently has no support for data includes. I've seen such feature on a dtc wish list though, so adding it should not be troublesome.
Jon, David,
Are you aware if anyone is working on a binary includes for dtc? This feature will be needed for U-boot New uImage format implementation, so I wonder what is the actual status of this dtc wish list item.
Thanks, Marian