5.1 U-Boot FIT Images

Flattened Image Tree (FIT) files are specialized instances of Flattened Device Tree (FDT) files. Instead of describing hardware, U-Boot FIT files contain files and metadata in the form of nodes and properties that are used to boot applications such as Linux®. FIT files used for Verified Boot contain a Linux® kernel, a Linux device tree, configuration data, and hashes that U-Boot uses to authenticate the data contained within the FIT file. U-Boot uses the bootm command to verify and boot an image in FIT format.

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