[PATCH 0/2] RFC: add fdt_add_pubkey tool

[Simon Glass]

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 02:17, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka at siemens.com> wrote:
>
> On 08.11.21 16:28, Roman Kopytin wrote:
> > In order to reduce the coupling between building the kernel and
> > U-Boot, I'd like a tool that can add a public key to U-Boot's dtb
> > without simultaneously signing a FIT image. That tool doesn't seem to
> > exist, so I stole the necessary pieces from mkimage et al and put it
> > in a single .c file.
> >
> > I'm still working on the details of my proposed "require just k out
> > these n required keys" and how it should be implemented, but it will
> > probably involve teaching this tool a bunch of new options. These
> > patches are not necessarily ready for inclusion (unless someone else
> > finds fdt_add_pubkey useful as is), but I thought I might as well send
> > it out for early comments.
>
> I'd also like to see the usage of this hooked into the build process.
>
> And to my understanding of [1], that approach will provide a feature
> that permits hooking with the build but would expect the key as dtsi
> fragment. Can we consolidate the approaches?
>
> My current vision of a user interface would be a Kconfig option that
> takes a list of key files to be injected. Maybe make that three lists,
> one for "required=image", one for "required=conf", and one for optional
> keys (if that has a use case in practice, no idea).

Also please take a look at binman which is designed to handle create
(or later updating from Yocto) the devicetree or firmware image.

Regards,
Simon


>
> Jan
>
> [1]
> https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20210928085651.619892-1-rasmus.villemoes@prevas.dk/
>
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