Dear Heer Lorcan,

In message CAHCtDORkcGdgTnTPyJfrxwdpmA=mrFDAJ5rHEzz94gy=wuq1fQ@mail.gmail.com you wrote:

want to extract files from my u-boot.bin. could you send me the script to do this?

u-boot.bin is a raw binary which does not contain any sort of "files". You cannot extract what's not there in the first place. And you cannot find tools to perform tasks that are impossible.

why, when building a compiler, interpreter, debugger, do the builders always forget to include a file/script to decompile a given file made by tools from the same group... it's just plain stupid...

Well, that's a prtty strong statement given that 1) you ignore the netiquette (you top-post / full-quote) and dropped the ML from Cc:, and 2) you appear to have only very limited understanding of what u-boot.bin actually is.

There is sufficient tools for all kinds of file manipulation available, but only for possible manipulations. It's like mixing chemicals - for example, once you mixed UDMH and nitrogen tetroxide, it will be very difficult to find tools to separate (i. e. "decompile") these again (for several reasons :-)

Some operations are simply irreversible.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk