List:

I'm sending this to the u-boot list as I figure this is where I'll get the expert advise on mkimage, if the wrong list, I'll cross post to linux embedded ppc.

I have a bit of a dilemma. I'm using mtd in linux for several images: Linux Kernel Ramdisk FPGA code Das U-Boot (and env vars)

When storing the kernel, I'd like to be able to use md5sum, but since the kernel does not take up the entire mtd partition, md5sum fails when I do:

md5sum /dev/mtd1 md5sum uImage

Usually I md5sum uImage > uImage.md5sum and change the file name to /dev/mtd1 so I can do: md5sum -c uImage.md5sum

So, I though maybe mkimage -l /dev/mtd1 would work. No dice:

mkimage -l /dev/mtd1 /tftpboot/mkimage: Bad size: "/dev/mtd1" is no valid image

so, dd if=/dev/mtd1 of=test.bin mkimage -l test.bin *** Warning: "test.bin" has corrupted data! Image Name: Linux-2.6.16.16-Sandburst Created: Wed Jun 7 14:00:21 2006 Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 1280248 Bytes = 1250.24 kB = 1.22 MB Load Address: 0x00000000 Entry Point: 0x00000000

See ***Warning above.

Anyone have a better approach?

TIA,

travis