[U-Boot-Users] Problem creating new uImage

Bartlomiej Sieka tur at semihalf.com
Wed Jun 4 14:39:50 CEST 2008


Markus Klotzbücher wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I'm facing a problem creating a new fdt image following the instructions
> in the u-boot/doc/uImage.FIT/howto.txt
> 
> u-boot and dtc are top of git:
> 
> $ dtc -v
> Version: DTC 1.1.0-g050e6f0c
> 
> ~/src/git/u-boot/ $ git-describe 
> v1.3.3-32-gf2aeecc
> 
> I'm in the linux-2.6-denx/ directory with kernel and target blob:
> 
> ~/src/git/linux-2.6-denx/ $ ls target.dtb vmlinux.bin.gz 
> target.dtb  vmlinux.bin.gz
> 
> I try to create the new image as follows:
> 
> $ ../u-boot/tools/mkimage -f ../u-boot/doc/uImage.FIT/kernel_fdt.its kernel_fdt.itb
> FIT format handling
> Trying to execute "dtc -I dts -O dtb -p 500 ../u-boot/doc/uImage.FIT/kernel_fdt.its > kernel_fdt.itb.tmp"
> DTC: dts->dtb  on file "../u-boot/doc/uImage.FIT/kernel_fdt.its"
> ../u-boot/doc/uImage.FIT/kernel_fdt.its:11 syntax error
> FATAL ERROR: Unable to parse input tree
> ../u-boot/tools/mkimage: Can't read kernel_fdt.itb.tmp: Invalid argument
> 
> Any ideas?

Hi Markus,

Line 11 of doc/uImage.FIT/kernel_fdt.its is:

data = /incbin/("./vmlinux.bin.gz");

So most likely your problem is due to mainline dtc not supporting binary
includes (yet). You need to patch it with original Scott Wood's patch,
see:
http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH--Add-support-for-binary-includes.-td15596760.html

HTH,
Bartlomiej




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