[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 50/54] mkimage: Set up a file size parameter and keep it updated

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 01:43:05 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 01:58:09 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > On 25 June 2015 at 16:51, Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Simon,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> wrote:
> > >> Some functions called by mkimage would like to know the output file
> > >> size. Initially this is the same as the input file size, but it may be
> > >> affected by adding headers, etc.
> > >> 
> > >> Add this information to the image parameters.
> > >> 
> > >> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> > >> ---
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
> > 
> > Applied to u-boot-dm.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This breaks all i.MX23 and i.MX28 boards, try building for example the
> mx28evk board, u-boot.sb target:
> 
> $ make mx28evk_defconfig
> $ make u-boot.sb
> [...]
>   LD      spl/lib/built-in.o
>   LDS     spl/u-boot-spl.lds
>   LD      spl/u-boot-spl
>   OBJCOPY spl/u-boot-spl.bin
>   CFG     spl/u-boot-spl.cfg
>   MKIMAGE u-boot.sb
> ./tools/mkimage: Can't open (null): Bad address
> arch/arm/cpu/arm926ejs/mxs/Makefile:82: recipe for target 'u-boot.sb'
> failed make[1]: *** [u-boot.sb] Error 1
> Makefile:989: recipe for target 'u-boot.sb' failed
> make: *** [u-boot.sb] Error 2
> 
> Shall I look into it or do you already have a patch ? :)

Patch is out and the patch is most certainly correct.

On the other hand, is my understanding correct that this patch makes passing
the -d option to mkimage mandatory ? It was optional before this patch I 
believe.

Best regards,
Marek Vasut