U-Boot/Tools
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Installing the U-Boot tools
On openSUSE
zypper install u-boot-tools
Installing on Arch Linux
pacman -S uboot-tools
Installing on Gentoo Linux
emerge u-boot-tools
Tool documentation
dumpimage
fw_printenv
fw_setenv
img2srec
jtagconsole
mkenvimage
mkimage
The mkimage command is used to create images for use with the U-Boot boot loader. Thes eimages can contain the linux kernel, device tree blob, root file system image, firmware images etc., either separate or combined.
The U-Boot article describes how to create a boot.scr from a boot.cmd file. The Initial Ramdisk article is used to convert an initramfs into a uInitrd.