Hi,

yes of course.

Here it is:

$ mkimage -l build/ed7ct-cb.srp
FIT description: LynxSecure 2025.10.0-39844b80e0 SRP (aarch64)
Created:         Thu Feb  5 13:58:31 2026
 Image 0 (kernel-1)
  Description:  LynxSecure 2025.10.0-39844b80e0 SRP (aarch64)
  Created:      Thu Feb  5 13:58:31 2026
  Type:         Kernel Image
  Compression:  uncompressed
  Data Size:    262512264 Bytes = 256359.63 KiB = 250.35 MiB
  Architecture: AArch64
  OS:           Linux
  Load Address: 0x40200000
  Entry Point:  0x40200040
 Image 1 (fdt-1)
  Description:  Flattened Device Tree blob for LynxSecure 2025.10.0-39844b80e0 
SRP (aarch64)
  Created:      Thu Feb  5 13:58:31 2026
  Type:         Flat Device Tree
  Compression:  uncompressed
  Data Size:    79519 Bytes = 77.66 KiB = 0.08 MiB
  Architecture: AArch64
 Default Configuration: 'conf-1'
 Configuration 0 (conf-1)
  Description:  LynxSecure 2025.10.0-39844b80e0 SRP (aarch64)
  Kernel:       kernel-1
  FDT:          fdt-1

Pls keep me in to loop, I am quite interested in this

Greetings
Dorde


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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Rini <[email protected]> 
Sent: Friday, February 6, 2026 2:55 AM
To: Stojicevic Dorde (11SIEPT1) <[email protected]>
Cc: Quentin Schulz <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: *EXT* Re: Re: [PATCH] arm: Backward compatibility to U-Boot v2020.04 
***CAUTION_Invalid_Signature***

On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 12:20:27PM +0000, Dorde Stojicevic wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> and thanks for your fast response.
> 
> Sorry for the formatting issue, I am bound to our company Outlook, which 
> hard-codes our signatures, so this one will not be possible to take out. I am 
> not quite sure git send-email would work, for the same reason + corporate 
> stuff....
> 
> Anyhow, an update/clarification on the things going on here (I could/should 
> have sent initially, sorry for that):
> 
> 1) Lynx Toolchain compiles a FIT Image with the following structure:
>       {
>               Images{
>                       Kernel-1 {
>                               Data=Image;
>                       }
>                       Fdt-1 {
>                               Data=system.dtb;
>                       }
>               }
>               Configurations {
>                       Here kernel-1 and fdt-1 used as default conf-1
>               }
>       }
> 2) Data=Image does not have the Magic Code 0x644d5241
> 3) It is booting with U-Boot SPL 2020.04+g1ccc9d93576+p1 according to Lynx. I 
> haven´t tested myself since we started with 2024.04, and we need it for some 
> other features.
> 4) Then I investigated differences v2020.04 vs v2024.04, and found this part 
> of code came in.
> 5) The finding is consistent with last error reported by U-Boot prior to 
> reset "Bad Linux ARM64 Image magic!"
> 
> 6) I 1st tried patching the Data=Image in Lynx FIT with the magic code, but 
> it didn’t work.
> 7) once I patched bootm in U-Boot to skip this part and behaves as in 
> v2020.04 (excluded all restructuring etc.) it booted the Lynx kernel
> 
> Basically, v2024.04 correctly detects "Bad Linux ARM64 Image magic!", as none 
> is there at the moment, but in order to boot Lynx Hypervisor as-is this 
> backward compatibility to v2020.04 is needed.
> 
> Does this shine more light on it?

This is helpful, yes, thanks. Can you provide an "mkimage -l" of one of these 
failing to boot FIT images?

--
Tom

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