U-Boot Image wrapper: Lua parsing library

The new uImage format allows more flexibility in handling images of various types (kernel, ramdisk, etc.), it also enhances integrity protection of images with sha1 and md5 checksums.

KS implementation details

License: CC0-1.0

This page hosts a formal specification of U-Boot Image wrapper using Kaitai Struct. This specification can be automatically translated into a variety of programming languages to get a parsing library.

Lua source code to parse U-Boot Image wrapper

uimage.lua

-- This is a generated file! Please edit source .ksy file and use kaitai-struct-compiler to rebuild
--
-- This file is compatible with Lua 5.3

local class = require("class")
require("kaitaistruct")
local enum = require("enum")
local str_decode = require("string_decode")

-- 
-- The new uImage format allows more flexibility in handling images of various
-- types (kernel, ramdisk, etc.), it also enhances integrity protection of images
-- with sha1 and md5 checksums.
-- See also: Source (https://source.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot/-/raw/e4dba4ba6f/include/image.h)
Uimage = class.class(KaitaiStruct)

Uimage.UimageOs = enum.Enum {
  invalid = 0,
  openbsd = 1,
  netbsd = 2,
  freebsd = 3,
  bsd4_4 = 4,
  linux = 5,
  svr4 = 6,
  esix = 7,
  solaris = 8,
  irix = 9,
  sco = 10,
  dell = 11,
  ncr = 12,
  lynxos = 13,
  vxworks = 14,
  psos = 15,
  qnx = 16,
  u_boot = 17,
  rtems = 18,
  artos = 19,
  unity = 20,
  integrity = 21,
  ose = 22,
  plan9 = 23,
  openrtos = 24,
  arm_trusted_firmware = 25,
  tee = 26,
  opensbi = 27,
  efi = 28,
}

Uimage.UimageArch = enum.Enum {
  invalid = 0,
  alpha = 1,
  arm = 2,
  i386 = 3,
  ia64 = 4,
  mips = 5,
  mips64 = 6,
  ppc = 7,
  s390 = 8,
  sh = 9,
  sparc = 10,
  sparc64 = 11,
  m68k = 12,
  nios = 13,
  microblaze = 14,
  nios2 = 15,
  blackfin = 16,
  avr32 = 17,
  st200 = 18,
  sandbox = 19,
  nds32 = 20,
  openrisc = 21,
  arm64 = 22,
  arc = 23,
  x86_64 = 24,
  xtensa = 25,
  riscv = 26,
}

Uimage.UimageComp = enum.Enum {
  none = 0,
  gzip = 1,
  bzip2 = 2,
  lzma = 3,
  lzo = 4,
  lz4 = 5,
  zstd = 6,
}

Uimage.UimageType = enum.Enum {
  invalid = 0,
  standalone = 1,
  kernel = 2,
  ramdisk = 3,
  multi = 4,
  firmware = 5,
  script = 6,
  filesystem = 7,
  flatdt = 8,
  kwbimage = 9,
  imximage = 10,
  ublimage = 11,
  omapimage = 12,
  aisimage = 13,
  kernel_noload = 14,
  pblimage = 15,
  mxsimage = 16,
  gpimage = 17,
  atmelimage = 18,
  socfpgaimage = 19,
  x86_setup = 20,
  lpc32xximage = 21,
  loadable = 22,
  rkimage = 23,
  rksd = 24,
  rkspi = 25,
  zynqimage = 26,
  zynqmpimage = 27,
  zynqmpbif = 28,
  fpga = 29,
  vybridimage = 30,
  tee = 31,
  firmware_ivt = 32,
  pmmc = 33,
  stm32image = 34,
  socfpgaimage_v1 = 35,
  mtkimage = 36,
  imx8mimage = 37,
  imx8image = 38,
  copro = 39,
  sunxi_egon = 40,
}

function Uimage:_init(io, parent, root)
  KaitaiStruct._init(self, io)
  self._parent = parent
  self._root = root or self
  self:_read()
end

function Uimage:_read()
  self.header = Uimage.Uheader(self._io, self, self._root)
  self.data = self._io:read_bytes(self.header.len_image)
end


Uimage.Uheader = class.class(KaitaiStruct)

function Uimage.Uheader:_init(io, parent, root)
  KaitaiStruct._init(self, io)
  self._parent = parent
  self._root = root or self
  self:_read()
end

function Uimage.Uheader:_read()
  self.magic = self._io:read_bytes(4)
  if not(self.magic == "\039\005\025\086") then
    error("not equal, expected " ..  "\039\005\025\086" .. ", but got " .. self.magic)
  end
  self.header_crc = self._io:read_u4be()
  self.timestamp = self._io:read_u4be()
  self.len_image = self._io:read_u4be()
  self.load_address = self._io:read_u4be()
  self.entry_address = self._io:read_u4be()
  self.data_crc = self._io:read_u4be()
  self.os_type = Uimage.UimageOs(self._io:read_u1())
  self.architecture = Uimage.UimageArch(self._io:read_u1())
  self.image_type = Uimage.UimageType(self._io:read_u1())
  self.compression_type = Uimage.UimageComp(self._io:read_u1())
  self.name = str_decode.decode(KaitaiStream.bytes_terminate(self._io:read_bytes(32), 0, false), "UTF-8")
end