[PATCH v3 8/8] mkimage: fit_image: Add option to make fit header align

[Kever Yang]

Hi Tom,

On 2020/3/28 上午2:16, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 06:09:16PM +0800, Kever Yang wrote:
>
>> The image is usually stored in block device like emmc, SD card, make the
>> offset of image data aligned to block(512 byte) can avoid data copy
>> during boot process.
>> eg. SPL boot from FIT image with external data:
>> - SPL read the first block of FIT image, and then parse the header;
>> - SPL read image data separately;
>> - The first image offset is the base_offset which is the header size;
>> - The second image offset is just after the first image;
>> - If the offset of imge does not aligned, SPL will do memcpy;
>> The header size is a ramdon number, which is very possible not aligned, so
>> add '-B' to specify the align size in hex for better performance.
>>
>> example usage:
>>    ./tools/mkimage -E -f u-boot.its -B 200 u-boot.itb
> OK, so we're taking a hex input, and that's not clear in the
> documentation.  The example should also be 0x200 for clarity.  In fact,
> being user-space, we need to make this user friendly and sanity check
> the input and if we're going to take hex in, enforce '0x' as a prefix
> even I think.  Thanks!

I use hex input because all of other parameters for mkimage tool are using

hex format instead of decimal format.

I will update ot use 0x200.


Thanks,

- Kever

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