[U-Boot] [swupdate] Re: SWUpdate - U-Boot environment library dependency

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Nov 22 14:22:48 UTC 2018


Dear Simon,

In message <97f8b0ec-103b-e9b7-42ed-e1922f6d489a at gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> Oops, I'll have to take that back. I just checked and SPL *does* boot 
> the uImage U-Boot also if I deliberately corrupt the CRC of the image. 
> So you're right, it seems to be not protected at all!
>
> Is that expected behaviour or a bug?

I don't know your board.

It may be intentional, for example if there are size restrictions
for the SPL wich don't allow to include the CRC32 code...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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