[PATCH 5/4] mkimage: update man page and -h output
Sean Anderson
seanga2 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 01:46:33 CET 2023
On 10/13/23 14:30, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 12/10/2023 04.17, Sean Anderson wrote:
>
>> I was hoping you would respond to my most-recent email regarding this
>> series.
>> In particular:
>>
>> | Why does mkimage have to do this? Can't you just use truncate or, in a
>> | binman context, align-size?
>
> In both cases, that just affects the size of the file, but does not
> affect the totalsize field in the fdt header.
Use `dtc -a` then.
> Wrt. binman, just as I was somewhat misled by the short mkimage -h
> output into thinking that this already worked as I expected, binman's
> fit,align documentation can also be read that way - and the
> _implementation_ certainly currently unconditionally translates a
> fit,align property into a -B argument to mkimage. So if we don't want
> mkimage to support a -B by itself, binman documentation and code would
> probably need another patch to reject that as well.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
--Sean
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