On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 08:30:23AM -0700, Tim Harvey wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 4:07 PM Marek Vasut <ma...@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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