[U-Boot-Users] RFC:new multi image format

[John Rigby]

How about a cpio archive?  While the cpio command is a mind
boggler for me the file format itself is very simple, which
is why it was chosen for initramfs images.  The content files
could have self documenting names and the MD5 or SHA1 sums
could go in .md5 and .sha1 files.

On 3/19/07, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> In message <45FEB74E.5020106 at gmx.net> you wrote:
> >
> > > Are other fields useful or should we just duplicate the image_header
> > > completely?
> >
> > If the fields of the current image header suffice to describe the images
> > contained in a multi-image, you can just wrap each sub-image with a
>
> They don;t. As mentioned before, I have a  customer  requirement  for
> MD5  /  SHA1 checksums for the images, and I don't want to misuse (or
> lose) other existing fields like the name string for this.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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