Hi Chris, On Wed, 19 Jun 2024 at 23:16, Chris Packham <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi U-Boot, > > I've been given a MIPS reference board with a fairly old vendor U-Boot > on it. It does seem to support the Mutli-File Image format but I'm > running into an issue where the kernel expects the initrd on a page > boundary. > > I'm using a command like the following to produce and image > cat board.dtb >> vmlinux.bin > gzip vmlinux.bin >vmlinux.gz > mkimage -C gzip -A mips -O linux -T multi -a 0x80100000 -e > 0x80100000 -d vmlinux.gz:initrd.sqsh myboard.img > > I can mess about with padding vmlinux.gz after the gzip step but the > process is a bit fragile and involves me guessing at some magic > numbers that I think might be sizes of certain headers. > > Is there any way to convince mkimage to make sure the initrd is on an > appropriately aligned boundary so I don't have to guess.
There is a -B flag which might help, if you can convert it to use FIT. I am sure that it does, though. Regards, Simon
