an image source file, which describes the contents of the image and defines
its various properties used during booting. By convention, image source file
has the ".its" extension, also, the details of its format are given in
-doc/source_file_format.txt. The actual data that is to be included in the
-uImage (kernel, ramdisk, etc.) is specified in the image source file in the
+doc/uImage.FIT/source_file_format.txt. The actual data that is to be included in
+the uImage (kernel, ramdisk, etc.) is specified in the image source file in the
form of paths to appropriate data files. The outcome of the image creation
process is a binary file (by convention with the ".itb" extension) that
contains all the referenced data (kernel, ramdisk, etc.) and other information
image source file mkimage + dtc transfer to target
+ ---------------> image file --------------------> bootm
-image data files(s)
+image data file(s)
Example 1 -- old-style (non-FDT) kernel booting
- description : Textual description of the component sub-image
- type : Name of component sub-image type, supported types are:
"standalone", "kernel", "ramdisk", "firmware", "script", "filesystem",
- "fdt".
+ "flat_dt".
- data : Path to the external file which contains this node's binary data.
- compression : Compression used by included data. Supported compressions
are "gzip" and "bzip2". If no compression is used compression property