[PATCH 2/3] tools: add fdt_add_pubkey

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Tue Feb 11 18:14:39 CET 2020


Hi Rasmus,

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 02:49, Rasmus Villemoes
<rasmus.villemoes at prevas.dk> wrote:
>
> Having to use the -K option to mkimage to populate U-Boot's .dtb with the
> public key while signing the kernel FIT image is often a little
> awkward. In particular, when using a meta-build system such as
> bitbake/Yocto, having the tasks of the kernel and U-Boot recipes
> intertwined, modifying deployed artifacts and rebuilding U-Boot with
> an updated .dtb is quite cumbersome. Also, in some scenarios one may
> wish to build U-Boot complete with the public key(s) embedded in the
> .dtb without the corresponding private keys being present on the same
> build host.
>
> So this adds a simple tool that allows one to disentangle the kernel
> and U-Boot builds, by simply copy-pasting just enough of the mkimage
> code to allow one to add a public key to a .dtb. When using mkimage,
> some of the information is taken from the .its used to build the
> kernel (algorithm and key name), so that of course needs to be
> supplied on the command line.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes at prevas.dk>
> ---
>  tools/.gitignore       |  1 +
>  tools/Makefile         |  3 ++
>  tools/fdt_add_pubkey.c | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 100 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 tools/fdt_add_pubkey.c

Would it be possible to modify mkimage instead, with another flag?

Regards,
Simon


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