On Tue, Apr 16 2019 at 15:51 +0200, Ulrich Ölmann <u.oelm...@pengutronix.de> 
wrote:
> Hi Steffen,
>
> On Tue, Apr 16 2019 at 14:53 +0200, Steffen Kothe 
> <steffen.kothe.gc1...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I try to update the U-Boot Loader on two different partitions.
>>
>> /dev/mmcblk3boot0
>> /dev/mmcblk3boot1
>>
>> A restriction on our i.Mx6 platform is location of the u-boot entry on
>> the partition.
>>
>> Offset: 1024 Byte Address: 0x400
>>
>> So a raw copy would start at address 0x00, but we have to start 0x400
>> for the entry point.
>>
>> Does rauc provides any options to customize the startaddress for a raw
>> copy/install of a binary file (u-boot binary)?
>>
>> I have took a look into the source code, but found out, that there is
>> no option to customize the default offset address for a write on a
>> partition.
>>
>>
>> Could you provide some help in this case?
>
> take a look at hooks, especially the subsubsection "Install Hook":
> https://rauc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#slot-hooks .

... and use your own logic for updating the bootloader (forgot to
mention that): write a script that switches the eMMC's bootloader
partition from read-only to read-write and use the mmc-utils (see [1] &
[2]) to atomically switch the eMMC's partition once it was written.

Best regards
Ulrich


[1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cjb/mmc-utils.git
[2] 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/mmc/mmc-tools.txt
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