[RFC PATCH v3 0/8] image: add a stage pre-load

[Simon Glass]

Hi Philippe,

On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 10:52, Philippe Reynes
<philippe.reynes at softathome.com> wrote:
>
> This serie adds a stage pre-load before launching an image.
> This stage is used to read a header before the image and
> this header contains the signature of the full image.
> So u-boot may check the full image before using any
> data of the image.
>
> Changelog:
> v3:
> - move image-pre-load.c to /boot
> - update mkimage to add public key in u-boot device tree
> - add script gen_pre_load_header.sh
> v2:
> - move the code to image-pre-load
> - add support of stage pre-load for spl
> - add support of stage pre-load on spl_ram
>
> Philippe Reynes (8):
>   lib: allow to build asn1 decoder and oid registry in SPL
>   lib: crypto: allow to build crypyo in SPL
>   lib: rsa: allow rsa verify with pkey in SPL
>   boot: image: add a stage pre-load
>   cmd: bootm: add a stage pre-load
>   common: spl: fit_ram: allow to use image pre load
>   mkimage: add public key for image pre-load stage
>   tools: gen_pre_load_header.sh: initial import
>
>  boot/Kconfig                 |  33 ++++
>  boot/Makefile                |   1 +
>  boot/bootm.c                 |  33 ++++
>  boot/image-pre-load.c        | 291 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  cmd/Kconfig                  |  10 ++
>  cmd/bootm.c                  |   2 +-
>  common/spl/spl_ram.c         |  21 ++-
>  include/image.h              |  25 +++
>  lib/Kconfig                  |   6 +
>  lib/Makefile                 |   9 +-
>  lib/crypto/Kconfig           |  15 ++
>  lib/crypto/Makefile          |  19 ++-
>  lib/rsa/Kconfig              |   8 +
>  tools/fit_image.c            |   3 +
>  tools/gen_pre_load_header.sh | 174 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/image-host.c           | 116 ++++++++++++++
>  16 files changed, 755 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 boot/image-pre-load.c
>  create mode 100755 tools/gen_pre_load_header.sh

Two main comments:

- Should use binman to add the header...or mkimage?
- Need to add a test, e.g. for sandbox_spl

Regards,
Simon