Hi Masahiro,
On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 01:19, Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 2:27 PM Neha Malcom Francis n-francis@ti.com wrote:
Hi Masahiro
On 21/09/23 21:06, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
Hi.
Since the TI platform migrated to binman, u-boot.img is built twice.
It is created by "mkimage -E", then overwritten by binman.
So, the data are embedded in the FIT structure instead of being appended.
Is this intentional?
To me, it looks weird.
I haven't added the fit,external-offset property in the binman.dtsi so it was not appended as external data and I did not find reason to. Is there any benefit in having the data appended than embedded?
Placing payload data outside the FIT structure is a U-Boot hack.
No, it isn't a hack. It is part of the specification[1].
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Regards, Simon
[1] https://github.com/open-source-firmware/flat-image-tree/releases/tag/v0.8