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authorPeng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>2017-12-05 13:20:59 +0800
committerTom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>2017-12-12 21:33:38 -0500
commita1be94b65410c7ebba5e7695478b6623579b410c (patch)
tree8d1c66635f112b8b170291e26ef1ad8621f83cc9 /doc
parent6032c029474cfba1ab2ff4a68e78905545c0c843 (diff)
SPL: Add FIT data-position property support
For external data, FIT has a optional property "data-position" which can set the external data to a fixed offset to FIT beginning. Add the support for this property in SPL FIT. Signed-off-by: Ye Li <ye.li@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Tomas Melin <tomas.melin@vaisala.com> Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> Cc: "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com> Cc: Igor Grinberg <grinberg@compulab.co.il> Cc: "tomas.melin@vaisala.com" <tomas.melin@vaisala.com> Cc: Kever Yang <kever.yang@rock-chips.com> Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Cc: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com> Cc: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com> Cc: "Cooper Jr., Franklin" <fcooper@ti.com> Cc: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com> Cc: Tuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas.tynkkynen@iki.fi> Cc: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@ti.com> Cc: Rick Altherr <raltherr@google.com> Cc: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> Reviewed-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@ti.com> Reviewed-by: York Sun <york.sun@nxp.com>
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diff --git a/doc/uImage.FIT/source_file_format.txt b/doc/uImage.FIT/source_file_format.txt
index 6f727a1e8a..88663a161d 100644
--- a/doc/uImage.FIT/source_file_format.txt
+++ b/doc/uImage.FIT/source_file_format.txt
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ In this case the 'data' property is omitted. Instead you can use:
The 'data-offset' property can be substituted with 'data-position', which
defines an absolute position or address as the offset. This is helpful when
-booting U-Boot proper before performing relocation.
+booting U-Boot proper before performing relocation. Pass '-p [offset]' to
+mkimage to enable 'data-position'.
Normal kernel FIT image has data embedded within FIT structure. U-Boot image
for SPL boot has external data. Existence of 'data-offset' can be used to