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| author | Guilherme Maciel Ferreira <guilherme.maciel.ferreira@gmail.com> | 2013-12-01 12:43:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> | 2013-12-13 09:15:32 -0500 |
| commit | a804b5ce2d84dca6f9e145003e588876adf2c71f (patch) | |
| tree | 60342a722b9322a3672e7edd8d4ee260cbf44cf6 /tools/.gitignore | |
| parent | f86ed6a8d52c99bb2d17d3cac1647edca0c4399c (diff) | |
| download | u-boot-a804b5ce2d84dca6f9e145003e588876adf2c71f.tar.gz | |
Add dumpimage, a tool to extract data from U-Boot images
Given a multi-file image created through the mkimage's -d option:
$ mkimage -A x86 -O linux -T multi -n x86 -d vmlinuz:initrd.img:System.map \
multi.img
Image Name: x86
Created: Thu Jul 25 10:29:13 2013
Image Type: Intel x86 Linux Multi-File Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 13722956 Bytes = 13401.32 kB = 13.09 MB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Contents:
Image 0: 4040128 Bytes = 3945.44 kB = 3.85 MB
Image 1: 7991719 Bytes = 7804.41 kB = 7.62 MB
Image 2: 1691092 Bytes = 1651.46 kB = 1.61 MB
It is possible to perform the innverse operation -- extracting any file from
the image -- by using the dumpimage's -i option:
$ dumpimage -i multi.img -p 2 System.map
Although it's feasible to retrieve "data files" from image through scripting,
the requirement to embed tools such 'dd', 'awk' and 'sed' for this sole purpose
is cumbersome and unreliable -- once you must keep track of file sizes inside
the image. Furthermore, extracting data files using "dumpimage" tool is faster
than through scripting.
Signed-off-by: Guilherme Maciel Ferreira <guilherme.maciel.ferreira@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/.gitignore')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/.gitignore | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/.gitignore b/tools/.gitignore index a7fee26cdd..2320fd80a1 100644 --- a/tools/.gitignore +++ b/tools/.gitignore @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ /gen_eth_addr /img2srec /kwboot +/dumpimage /mkenvimage /mkimage /mpc86x_clk |