- data : Path to the external file which contains this node's binary data.
- compression : Compression used by included data. Supported compressions
are "gzip" and "bzip2". If no compression is used compression property
- should be set to "none".
+ should be set to "none". If the data is compressed but it should not be
+ uncompressed by U-Boot (e.g. compressed ramdisk), this should also be set
+ to "none".
Conditionally mandatory property:
- os : OS name, mandatory for types "kernel" and "ramdisk". Valid OS names
|- fdt = "fdt sub-node unit-name" [, "fdt overlay sub-node unit-name", ...]
|- fpga = "fpga sub-node unit-name"
|- loadables = "loadables sub-node unit-name"
+ |- compatible = "vendor,board-style device tree compatible string"
Mandatory properties:
- loadables : Unit name containing a list of additional binaries to be
loaded at their given locations. "loadables" is a comma-separated list
of strings. U-Boot will load each binary at its given start-address and
- may optionaly invoke additional post-processing steps on this binary based
+ may optionally invoke additional post-processing steps on this binary based
on its component image node type.
+ - compatible : The root compatible string of the U-Boot device tree that
+ this configuration shall automatically match when CONFIG_FIT_BEST_MATCH is
+ enabled. If this property is not provided, the compatible string will be
+ extracted from the fdt blob instead. This is only possible if the fdt is
+ not compressed, so images with compressed fdts that want to use compatible
+ string matching must always provide this property.
The FDT blob is required to properly boot FDT based kernel, so the minimal
configuration for 2.6 FDT kernel is (kernel, fdt) pair.
for SPL boot has external data. Existence of 'data-offset' can be used to
identify which format is used.
+For FIT image with external data, it would be better to align each blob of data
+to block(512 byte) for block device, so that we don't need to do the copy when
+read the image data in SPL. Pass '-B 0x200' to mkimage to align the FIT
+structure and data to 512 byte, other values available for other align size.
+
9) Examples
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