mkimage

[balanga]

Should the FreeBSD version of mkimage create the same output as a Linux version?

I tried using the same comandline

mkimage -A arm -O linux -C gzip -T ramdisk -n initramfs -d initrd-noheader.gz initrd

on both, but there were differences in the nitrd produced.

Is this to be expected?

 

[tobik@]

Is this to be expected?

I don't have mkimage. Where did you get it from?

Was it from devel/uboot-mkimage?

 

[acheron]

You can use the one from NetBSD, mmel@ has imported it in his github: https://github.com/strejda/tegra/commit/913f558c6d16b87365a1e6ad64231b77524e6cd9

 

[balanga]

I don't have mkimage. Where did you get it from?

Was it from devel/uboot-mkimage?

Yes

 

[balanga]

Should the FreeBSD version of mkimage create the same output as a Linux version?

I tried using the same comandline

mkimage -A arm -O linux -C gzip -T ramdisk -n initramfs -d initrd-noheader.gz initrd

on both, but there were differences in the nitrd produced.

Is this to be expected?

I was unable to reproduce the result I found earlier... Having tried carefully to produce an initrd on both FreeBSD and Arch Linux the files are the same apart from the timestamp.

 

[balanga]

Having just run pkg install -y uboot-mkimage, I'm greeted with the info that:-

Message from uboot-mkimage-2010.12:

===>   NOTICE:

This port is deprecated; you may wish to reconsider installing it:

Use sysutils/u-boot-tools.

It is scheduled to be removed on or after 2019-02-28.

Since I installed it, it looks like it hasn't been removed yet.

 

[acheron]

It was remove a few weeks ago : https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=494498