how to do a digest on a flashed uImage ? uimage command evolution

Philippe Leduc ledphilippe at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 04:09:11 PDT 2015


Is this a Linux specific behavior? Because I am trying to boot a RTOS
(PikeOS) without success? (Anyway thank you for the info :) )

Best regards,
Philippe LEDUC
ledphilippe at gmail.com


2015-07-02 12:50 GMT+02:00 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
<plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>:
>
>> On Jul 2, 2015, at 6:47 PM, Philippe Leduc <ledphilippe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, I am using bootm to start my system: how do you boot your system
>> with a mounted uImage?
>>
>
> bootm /mnt/data simply specialy on arm.
>
> Best Regards,
> J.
>
>> Best regards,
>>
>>
>> Philippe LEDUC
>> ledphilippe at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> 2015-07-02 11:30 GMT+02:00 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
>> <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>:
>>>
>>>> On Jul 2, 2015, at 4:53 PM, Philippe Leduc <ledphilippe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> First thank you for the details answers :)
>>>>
>>>> Following your explanations/propositions, I think uimagefs is not
>>>> suited to my needs. I think therefore make an evolution of the uImage
>>>> command to be able to retrieve the size of my image and to copy it
>>>> efficiently into the RAM.
>>>>
>>>> I'll try to propose a patch next week for review. But before that,
>>>> what do you think about thes follwing interface:
>>>>
>>>> uimage - extract/verify/copy uImage
>>>>
>>>> Usage: uimage [-vienc] FILE
>>>>
>>>> Options:
>>>>       -i                      show information about image
>>>>       -v                     verify image
>>>>       -e OUTFILE      extract image to OUTFILE
>>>>       -n NO               use image number NO in multifile image
>>>>       -c OUTFILE      Copy the image to OUTFILE
>>>>       -s SIZE            Return the size of the uimage file into a VARiable.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I see no point to extract and copy as you you need to mount it
>>>
>>> and then use cp
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> J.
>



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