On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > The ARM reference designs all use a special flash image format > that stores a footer (two versions exist) at the end of the last > erase block of the image in flash memory. > > Version one of the footer is indicated by the magic number > 0xA0FFFF9F at 12 bytes before the end of the flash block and > version two is indicated by the magic number 0x464F4F54 0x464C5348 > (ASCII for "FLSHFOOT") in the very last 8 bytes of the erase block. > > This command driver implements support for both versions of the > AFS images (the name comes from the Linux driver in drivers/mtd/afs.c) > and makes it possible to list images and load an image by name into > the memory with these commands: > > afs - lists flash contents > afs load <image> - loads image to address indicated in the image > afs load <image> <addres> - loads image to a specified address > > This image scheme is used on the ARM Integrator family, ARM > Versatile family, ARM RealView family (not yet supported in U-Boot) > and ARM Versatile Express family up to and including the new > Juno board for 64 bit development. > > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Tom Rini <[email protected]> -- Tom
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