On 12/2/21 2:31 am, [email protected] wrote:
> There has been a small typo in the previous patch.

Thank you for the patch. Could you please send it as a git patch to
[email protected] or attach it to a ticket in Trac?

This may help ...

https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/eng/vc-users.html?highlight=commit#creating-a-patch

Thanks
Chris

> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: users <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von [email protected]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2021 16:14
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: AW: RTEMS mkimage.py for U-Boot scripts
> 
> Hello,
> 
> after some digging I think I found the problem and at least a workaround.
> 
> As a disclaimer, I do not know if this really counts as a general fix.
> I have not invested enough time to dig through the original mkimage U-Boot 
> source to figure this out.
> But I have attached my workaround patch if anyone might face the same 
> problems.
> 
> The source of the problem are eight bytes between the header and the actual 
> input file which are missing when using mkimage.py.
> Also the input size and input crc are wrong which is a result of the missing 
> bytes.
> 
> These eight bytes always reflect the actual size of the input file (first 
> four bytes) with four bytes zeros following.
> Within the original mkimage tool these eight bytes are considered part of the 
> input file section in the output file.
> Therefore the calculated input size is eight bytes higher and the input crc 
> differs.
> 
> As a workaround the mkimage.py script will add these eight bytes to the 
> output file and the input crc calculation and adjusts the input size.
> This only happens when the type script was selected.
> 
> Best regards
> André
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: users <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von [email protected]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. Januar 2021 08:09
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: RTEMS mkimage.py for U-Boot scripts
> 
> Hello,
> 
> in our laboratory setup we use different U-Boot scripts to control the boot 
> behavior of our development board (Trenz TE0715 [1] on top of Trenz TE0706 
> [2]).
> 
> These simple scripts need to be converted into a script image using the 
> mkimage command for U-Boot. [3] We use the following command which works fine:
> 
> ./mkimage -A arm -T script -C none -n "fancy name" -d bootscripts/rtems 
> rtems.img
> Image Name:   fancy name
> Created:      Tue Jan 26 06:57:50 2021
> Image Type:   ARM Linux Script (uncompressed)
> Data Size:    324 Bytes = 0.32 KiB = 0.00 MiB
> Load Address: 00000000
> Entry Point:  00000000
> Contents:
>    Image 0: 316 Bytes = 0.31 KiB = 0.00 MiB
> 
> Because our setup also depends on the rtems-zynq-mkimg command and the rtems 
> environment to be available we wanted to switch to the usage of the 
> mkimage.py command which comes via RTEMS.
> BUT every script image we generate with this tool behaves different than the 
> one we generated with mkimage.
> First of all is the output different, including a different resulting file 
> size and a missing contents section.
> 
> mkimage.py -A arm -T script -C none -n "fancy name" -d bootscripts/rtems 
> rtems.img
> Image Name:    fancy name
> Created:       Tue Jan 26 08:00:06 2021
> Image Type:    none
> Data Size:     316
> Load Address:  0
> Entry Point:   0
> 
> Adding the OS option with linux or u-boot does seem to change something, but 
> the resulting script image is again not usable.
> 
> I became aware of this because when a script image like this is uploaded to 
> U-Boot and sourced, no error occurs but also nothing else happens.
> Usually it should print some information on what the script is doing and then 
> well do its intended operations like it does when it is converted via the 
> mkimage script.
> 
> Has somebody else had the same issue and maybe even overcome it?
> Or does anybody have a clue where the problem may originate from?
> 
> Thanks in advance for the answer and help.
> 
> [1] 
> https://wiki.trenz-electronic.de/display/PD/TE0715+TRM#TE0715TRM-KeyFeatures
> [2] 
> https://wiki.trenz-electronic.de/display/PD/TE0706+TRM#TE0706TRM-KeyFeatures
> [3] https://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/UBootScripts 
> 
> Best regards
> Andre Nahrwold
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> 295-3834 | [email protected] DLR.de
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