Pintu,

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Von: "Pintu Agarwal" [off-list ref]
My requirement:
To find the checksum of a real image in runtime which is flashed in an
MTD partition.

Problem:
Currently, to find the checksum, we are using:
$ md5sum /dev/mtd14
This returns the proper checksum of the entire partition.
But we wanted to find the checksum only for the actual image data
which will be used by our C utility to validate the image.
Here, we don't know the actual image size.
We only know the "partition-size" and "erasesize".

So, is there a mechanism to somehow find the image size at runtime?

not really, UBI manages the MTD and does wearleveling, auto growing of volumes, etc...
So as soon you attach the image once, it is changed and the checksum won't match.
It may work if you don't attach UBI and your flash program tool keeps track of
what pages it wrote.

Thanks,
//richard

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