[U-Boot] How to convert imximage.cfg so it can be used in mkimage?

[Alexander Dahl]

Hei hei,

Am Sonntag, 17. November 2019, 23:22:30 CET schrieb Winston Gao:
> I am trying to create a bootstrap image for iMX6 and the command mkimage
> fails like below:

mkimage as you call it for a legacy image takes a binary file and puts a 
special 64 byte header in front of it. This way U-Boot can load it at runtime 
or you can load it from U-Boot commandline.

> $ mkimage -n imximage.cfg -T imximage -e 0x17000000 -d overlay_img
> bootstrap_img.bin Error: imximage.cfg[1] - Invalid command(/*)

What's the content of that 'overlay_img' file?

Besides: I would not name the resulting file .bin but .uimg to see it's a U-
Boot image "container" file.

> Further investigation shows that the error is caused by that there is c-type
> comments (/*...*/) in imximage.cfg file. When I remove all the c-type
> comments in the file, it works fine.

Well, -n sets a name in the image header. I guess you have those '/*...*/' in 
your file 'overlay_img'?

> u-boot document does say that imximage.cfg accept comment line starting with
> '#' in the file. However, that file, which is coming together with u-boot
> source has c-type comments. I am thinking the file is involved in some
> u-boot compiling. How to convert that file to remove all the c-type
> comments automatically so it can be used in mkimage command?

Recent U-Boot source tree has over 30 files named 'imximage.cfg', which one do 
you refer to?

Kind regards
Alex