UBootInstallTools < DULG

%SECTION0{name=UBootInstallTools}% Tool Installation

U-Boot uses a special image format when loading the Linux kernel or
ramdisk or other images. This image contains (among other things)
information about the time of creation, operating system, compression
type, image type, image name and CRC32 checksums.

The tool =mkimage= is used to create such images or
to display the information they contain.
When using the ELDK, the =mkimage= command is
already included with the other ELDK tools.

If you don't use the ELDK then you should install
=mkimage= in some directory that is in your command
search =PATH=, for instance:

<verbatim>
$ cp tools/mkimage /usr/local/bin/
</verbatim>

=mkimage= is ready available in several distributions; for example,
in [[http://www.ubuntu.com/][Ubuntu]] it is part of the =u-boot-tools= package,
so so it can be installed like that:
<verbatim>
$ sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools
</verbatim>
In [[http://fedoraproject.org/][Fedora]] the package name is =uboot-tools=,
and the command to install it is:
<verbatim>
$ sudo yum install uboot-tools
</verbatim>
5.4.3. Installation using U-Boot		1. Abstract		5.6. Initialization
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