[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 7/8] imximage: Add MX53 boot image support

[Jason Liu]

Hi, Wolfgang,

2010/12/31 Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>:
> Dear Jason Liu,
>
> In message <AANLkTik1uxZK+7LL6cHtQ465Z4x+pm-kfQeaLi=D7-9S at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> > This looks as if you added something to the standard 64 byte image
>> > header. You must not modify this. It is fixed for all architectures
>> > and cannot be extended.
>>
>> This change is specific for I.MX chip and will not affect other architectur> es.
>
> All architectures use exactly the same binary image header.  This
> header has no version field, and such a field cannot be added.

Here, the imx header is the data structure we defined in imximage.c
and it will be used to generate
the boot-able image u-boot.imx of i.mx soc together with u-boot.bin by
.set_header function call of struct
image_type_params according to FSLi.MX boot ROM requirement.

When run the command "mkimage -l u-boot.imx", the imx header will be
fetched from the u-boot.imx and
the version information will be decoded according to data structure
definition, and then it do the verify by
checking some magic number or tag according to different version, and
in the end, it will print the header
information if it pass the verification.

So, I don't think it will affect other architectures.

>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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