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

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Oct 2 03:17:20 CEST 2023


On Thu, 28 Sept 2023 at 02:03, Rasmus Villemoes
<rasmus.villemoes at prevas.dk> wrote:
>
> The man page correctly said that -B was ignored without -E, while the
> `mkimage -h` output suggested otherwise. Now that -B can actually be
> used by itself, update the man page.
>
> While at it, also amend the `mkimage -h` line to mention the
> connection with -E.
>
> The FDT header is a fixed 40 bytes, so its size cannot (and is not)
> modified, while its alignment is a property of the address in RAM one
> loads the FIT to, so not something mkimage can affect in any way. (In
> the file itself, the header is of course at offset 0, which has all
> possible alignments already.)
>
> Reported-by: Sean Anderson <seanga2 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes at prevas.dk>
> ---
>  doc/mkimage.1   | 6 ++++--
>  tools/mkimage.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Strange that your patch says 5/4


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