[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] arm: mxs: Add support for generating signed BootStream

[Stefano Babic]

On 05/03/2014 20:01, Marek Vasut wrote:
> This patch adds the groundwork for generating signed BootStream, which
> can be used by the HAB library in i.MX28. We are adding a new target,
> u-boot-signed.sb , since the process for generating regular non-signed
> BootStream is much easier. Moreover, the signed bootstream depends on
> external _proprietary_ _binary-only_ tool from Freescale called 'cst',
> which is available only under NDA.
> 
> To make things even uglier, the CST or HAB mandates a kind-of circular
> dependency. The problem is, unlike the regular IVT, which is generated
> by mxsimage, the IVT for signed boot must be generated by hand here due
> to special demands of the CST. The U-Boot binary (or SPL binary) and IVT
> are then signed by the CST as a one block. But here is the problem. The
> size of the entire image (U-Boot, IVT, CST blocks) must be appended at
> the end of IVT. But the size of the entire image is not known until the
> CST has finished signing the U-Boot and IVT. We solve this by expecting
> the CST block to be always 3904B (which it is in case two files, U-Boot
> and the hand-made IVT, are signed in the CST block).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic at denx.de>
> ---

Applied to u-boot-imx, thanks !

Best regards,
Stefano Babic


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