[U-Boot] [ANN] U-Boot v2013.07 released

Albert ARIBAUD albert.u.boot at aribaud.net
Tue Jul 23 07:28:32 CEST 2013


Hi Tom,

On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:20:58 -0400, Tom Rini <trini at ti.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce that v2013.07 has been tagged and pushed out,
> and will be available shortly in the usual places.
> 
> There's once again been a lot of great work done, and aside from the
> usual rounds of cleanups, bug fixes and new SoC/board support or
> improvements (your favorite vendor has likely added, improved, or both,
> their current families support), one thing I want to call out here is
> the ability to do verified boot.
> 
> For more details, take a look at doc/uImage.FIT/signature.txt but in
> short, you can now cryptographically sign your boot image (kernel,
> device tree, ramdisk) and verify them at run time.  There's still work
> to be done to make it easier to tie things to a TPM (it's just
> scriptable today), but hey, there it is.  One might even say this is one
> of those technical features that makes companies chose something other
> than U-Boot..

I'm not seeing the version tag in the master branch or elsewhere in the
u-boot repo. Should it not have appeared now?

> --
> Tom

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.


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