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
next prev 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
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