kernel: mtdsplit: add support for brnImages
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 10:40:51 +0000 (10:40 +0000)
committerFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Sun, 17 Jan 2016 10:40:51 +0000 (10:40 +0000)
commit930157544e22a09ce1afcbfba974fad6e090a649
tree1c63604cb1d843b22a320fc2dec612c55fd6a800
parent9722209a00f3beb13de1fbdf3512eee9206a06f8
kernel: mtdsplit: add support for brnImages

This adds brnImage (used with the brnboot bootloader) firmware parsing
support. brnboot verifies the integrity of the firmware stored on the
"Code Image" partitions by looking at the 12 byte footer at the very end
of the partition. This footer contains the checksum of the original
brnImage (kernel + rootfs/squashfs) and must not be touched (by our JFFS2
rootfs_data - otherwise the image will not be bootable anymore).

Big thanks to Mathias Kresin for analyzing the brnImage structure and
finding out the information how to keep images valid even when adding a
nested rootfs_data partition.

Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
SVN-Revision: 48261
target/linux/generic/config-3.18
target/linux/generic/config-4.1
target/linux/generic/config-4.3
target/linux/generic/config-4.4
target/linux/generic/files/drivers/mtd/mtdsplit/Kconfig
target/linux/generic/files/drivers/mtd/mtdsplit/Makefile
target/linux/generic/files/drivers/mtd/mtdsplit/mtdsplit_brnimage.c [new file with mode: 0644]