[PATCH 2/2] imx: hab: Use nxp_imx8mcst etype for i.MX8M flash.bin signing

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Apr 26 17:51:13 CEST 2024


On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 08:30:23AM -0700, Tim Harvey wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 4:07 PM Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> wrote:
> >
> > Update documentation and use nxp_imx8mcst binman etype for signing
> > of flash.bin instead of previous horrible shell scripting.
> 
> Hi Marek,
> 
> To be completely fair we are just replacing a shell script and
> template file with a python script
> (tools/binman/etype/nxp_imx8mcst.py) which also creates the template
> file.
> 
> I could care less about shell vs python but do put huge value in the
> idea of making signing easier and doing so without modification of
> U-Boot code. The current implementation requires a couple of things to
> be enabled in defconfig which can be done with a seperate
> 'out-of-tree' defconfig but this new proposed implementation requires
> changing a u-boot.dtsi which is a tracked file.

A counter-point is that with using binman for signing we start
eliminating differences between different semiconductors on how to get
something signed.

-- 
Tom
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