[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add option -p to mkimage to align an image to word boundary

[Amnon Cohen]

Would anybody be bothered if mkimage _always_ aligned images?
That way we could loose the third argument of copy_file, as well
as the new -p flag.
- Amnon

On 3/2/07, Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman at nxp.com> wrote:
>
> CHANGELOG:
> * Add option -p to mkimage for always alligning an image to word boundary.
>
> This patch adds a feature to tools/mkimage.c by making it possible to
> always align a filesystem image to word boundary. Images created with this
>
> option are always aligned on word boundary and will always correctly be
> loaded with the ARM RVDS when using raw mode (Raw data one word per word
> of memory). Images created without this option will not boot with u-boot
> and abort with "Data CRC error". This situation has been reported several
> times on this maillinglist.
>
> It is tested against todays git repository.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman < jean-paul.saman at nxp.com>
>
>
>
> Kind greetings,
>
> Jean-Paul Saman
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