[PATCH 5/4] mkimage: update man page and -h output

Rasmus Villemoes rasmus.villemoes at prevas.dk
Tue Nov 7 08:30:13 CET 2023


On 07/11/2023 01.46, Sean Anderson wrote:
> 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.

Not possible, when the generator is binman which calls mkimage which
calls dtc. If I was using dtc directly, sure.

Anyway, I currently have more important things to deal with than this.
Simon, please drop the series. I'll send a revert to Tom for the
prematurely applied fixup.

Rasmus



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