Hi Masahiro, On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 01:19, Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 2:27 PM Neha Malcom Francis <n-fran...@ti.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Masahiro > > > > On 21/09/23 21:06, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > Since the TI platform migrated to binman, > > > u-boot.img is built twice. > > > > > > It is created by "mkimage -E", > > > then overwritten by binman. > > > > > > > > > So, the data are embedded in the FIT structure > > > instead of being appended. > > > > > > Is this intentional? > > > > > > To me, it looks weird. > > > > > > > > > > I haven't added the fit,external-offset property in the binman.dtsi so it > > was > > not appended as external data and I did not find reason to. Is there any > > benefit > > in having the data appended than embedded? > > > > Placing payload data outside the FIT structure is a U-Boot hack.
No, it isn't a hack. It is part of the specification[1]. [..] Regards, Simon [1] https://github.com/open-source-firmware/flat-image-tree/releases/tag/v0.8