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10 years ago

How do I determine FPGA image size within a POF

Hello all. I have searched around and can't find quite the answer I'm looking for so I'm hoping that I can get some help here. First a little background. I am attempting to create an applicat...
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10 years ago

As I said, the size in bits:

$ printf '%x\n' $((0x1b3f830/8))

367f06

Non-encrypted images seem to end with a few 0xff bytes.

Encrypted ones 'just stop' - makes it difficult to detect truncated .rbf files.

Quite why .rbf files contain slightly different data to .pof is another matter entirely.