U-Boot Archive on lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] common: fit: Allow U-Boot images to be booted
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 07:46:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <578DBEA8.30700@xilinx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160718120542.18598-1-mario.six@gdsys.cc>

On 18.7.2016 14:05, Mario Six wrote:
> In certain circumstances it comes in handy to be able to boot into a second
> U-Boot. But as of now it is not possible to boot a U-Boot binary that is inside
> a FIT image, which is problematic for projects that e.g. need to guarantee a
> unbroken chain of trust from SOC all the way into the OS, since the FIT signing
> mechanism cannot be used.
> 
> This patch adds the capability to load such FIT images.
> 
> An example its snippet (utilizing signature verification) might look like the
> following:
> 
> images {
> 	kernel at 1 {
> 		description = "2nd stage U-Boot image";
> 		data = /incbin/("u-boot-dtb.img.gz");
> 		type = "kernel";

Isn't this type weird for u-boot itself?

The rest is good.

Thanks,
Michal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-19  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-18 12:05 [U-Boot] [PATCH] common: fit: Allow U-Boot images to be booted Mario Six
2016-07-18 15:59 ` Tom Rini
2016-07-19  5:46 ` Michal Simek [this message]
2016-07-19  6:45   ` Mario Six
2016-07-19  6:47     ` Michal Simek
2016-07-19  7:04       ` Mario Six
2016-07-19  7:14     ` Wolfgang Denk
2016-07-19  7:41       ` Mario Six

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=578DBEA8.30700@xilinx.com \
    --to=michal.simek@xilinx.com \
    --cc=u-boot@lists.denx.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox